Two Masks, Same Face presentation #041 - The Jacobin Club

BLOG #041 - Dark Occult Origins of Communism (The Jacobin Club)

The Society of the Jacobins, commonly known as the Jacobin Club, or simply the Jacobins, was founded in 1789 by anti-royalists from Brittany in northwestern France. The club grew into a nationwide movement with a membership of more than 500,000, making it the largest and most powerful political organization during the French Revolution. Women were not accepted as members of the Jacobin Club, and their high membership fees confined its membership to well-off men. The Jacobins claimed to speak on behalf of the people, but were themselves not “of” the people. Contemporaries saw the Jacobins as a club of the bourgeoisie.

The Jacobin Club included both French parliamentary factions: the Mountain and the Girondins.The Girondins had overthrown King Louis XVI and set up the French First Republic. In May 1793, leaders of the Mountain faction, led by Maximilien Robespierre, succeeded in sidelining the Girondin faction and controlled the government until July 1794. Robespierre, whose political views were rooted in the notion of “the social contract”, was viewed as the political force of the Jacobin Movement. The Jacobins’ time in government featured high levels of political violence, resulting in the execution of 17,000 political opponents nationwide. For this reason,  the period of the Jacobin government of France is identified as the “Reign of Terror”. The Jacobins’ Reign of Terror was instituted as a means of combating those they perceived as enemies within.

In July 1794, the National Convention of France pushed Rosepierre and his Jacobin allies out of power and had Rosepierre and 21 of his associates executed. In November 1794, the Jacobin Club officially disbanded. Jacobin rhetoric would lead to the increasing secularization of Europe throughout the 1800s. The political rhetoric espoused by the Jacobins would lead to the development of the modern leftist movements throughout the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, with Jacobinism being the political foundation of almost all leftist schools of thought, including socialism and communism. Georges Valois, founder of the 20th century French fascist party, “Faisceau”, claimed that the roots of fascism also stemmed from the Jacobin movement.

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