I wish Jacobin would publish actual Jacobin arguments, like "The free market works best in principle, but since the nation is beset by traitors and hoarders trying to undermine the Republic, we have to institute wage and price controls."
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One thing I've noticed reading about the Terror, is that since some of the complex causes of social problems were not well understood, people often defaulted to "It's a plot", which according to Gordon Wood, was also a characteristic of the American Revolution
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I believe this supports my theory of the connection between The Enlightenment and conspiracy thinkinghttps://twitter.com/lionel_trolling/status/1007586322654089216 …
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Bailyn's Ideological Origins of the American Revolution also goes into this -- the pamphlets of American revolution often filled with bizarre conspiracy theories to explain events.
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yeah ive read that and he was wood's teacher if im not mistaken
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I think so. Definitely of the same school in terms of thinking about small-r republican ideology. But yes, conspiracy theories as we understand them are a by product of the Enlightenment.
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