He did not foresee that he would
have them; he did not know what his dogma contained, what venomous and
murderous consequences were to issue from it. They issue from it
fatally, each in its turn, and under the pressure of circumstances, at
first anarchical consequences and now despotic consequences. Having
obtained power, the Jacobin brings his fixed idea along with him;
whether at the head of the government or in opposition to it, this
idea is fruitful, and the all-powerful dogma projects over a new
domain the innumerable links of its endless chain.
II. A Communist State..
The Jacobin concept of Society. -- The Contrat-Social. -- Total
surrender of the Individual to the Community. -- Everything belongs
to the State. -- Confiscations and Sequestrations. -- Pre-emption
and requisition and requisition of produce and merchandise. --
Individuals belong to the State.-- Drafts of persons for Military
service. -- Drafts of persons for the Civil service. -- The State
philanthropist, educator, theologian, moralist, censor and director of
ideas and intimate feelings.
Let us trace this inward development and go back, along with the
Jacobin, to first principles, to the original pact, to the first
organization of society.
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