Neil HardingThinkers

Jacobinism is associated with a tightly-organized band of co-believers forcing the pace of history which refuses to accept such limitations to political strategy as the level of industrial development, class formation, culture and consciousness.

Jacobinism is concerned with a self-selected elite who anticipates and acts on the yet-unrecognized will of the masses on their behalf.

Jacobinism is grounded in the claim that to wait for transformation would be cowardly and counter-productive, and what is needed is a cohesive organization of dedicated men who would lead a coup, seize state power, and utilize it to inaugurate the socialist transformation of Russia.

Jacobinism is the idea that a self-selected elite, by dint of their knowledge, dedication and selflessness, had a surer grasp of the needs of the ordinary people than the people themselves could possess.

Jacobinism is the idea that the path to secure the support of the people lay through the prior seizure of state power: Not through a majority to state power, but through state power to a majority.

Jacobinism is the idea that, given the state's control of education, the church and the army, it was illusory to expect widespread revolutionary consciousness before the revolution.

Lenninism is a kind of precocious totalitarianism.

Lenninism is a reaction to imperialism that urges the destruction of the nation state which had finally demonstrated itself to be radically at odds with the goals of securing peace or freedom in the world.

Lenninism is a set of organizational precepts and mobilizing devices presided over by a centralized and disciplined political party.

Lenninism is expressly confrontational. It sets out to polarize, not conciliate, and strives to assault the shared discourse of european politics.

Lenninism is often thought to be concerned very little with theory and to be distinctive primarily because of its 'modern' grasp of the persuasive power of propaganda and the manipulative potential of front organizations to mobilize the masses.

Lenninism is a reaction to the World War I in which capitalism had finally and irrevocably forfeited its right to exist.

Lenninism is the first modern ideology to grasp the potential of how mass media could be skillfully manipulated by professional propagandist to mold, canalize and radicalize public grievances and public opinion.