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So you went from a quote romanticizing the Jacobins (apparently with no motivation) to backing out from having any position at all. Well done.

There was a moment in time before the revolution where the king was gearing to extend the tax further on the first two estates, then a bunch of self-motivated fools decided to forego that in order to gain more power, temporary as it was, for themselves. Despite centuries of revolutions, the super-rich remain untaxed and the organized minorities are vested in destroying life as it is for the working class. Any dissent was seen as counter-revolutionary and thus heresy.

The parallels to today are striking, hence my sarcastic original comment. Screw the Jacobins.