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MacKinnon, Rousseau, and the Origins of Inequality

Political Theory 101

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The Jacobin's Role in Counter-Revolutionary Sentiments

The Jacobin is the way in which Rob Speer might have thought about what he was doing. Is there also a role that the very concept of having a general will plays in leading to outcomes which don't permit a plurality of voices in the state? This is the thing about the counter-revolutionary sentiment, right? And I think it was important for the more radical French revolutionaries to get that element out to kind of expunge France of that counter-Revolutionary element. So that the institutions can be created under which this general will emerge and is recognized as having emerged.

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