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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there was some hoarding not necessarily by nobles, but the laws to deal with hoarding made things worse in many cases, because they created incentives for people to just seize wholesaler’s goods
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I can see that. 18th century British politics was based on tight elite networks bound together by patronage -- which is another way of saying "conspiracies." No wonder Bolingbroke's rants resonated with the American revolutionaries.
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