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Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Dr. Strangelove

de ideologie van Kaddafi is vooral geinspireerd op Rousseau eigenlijk, niet op de jacobijnen

De retoriek van directe democratie (zonder parlement) vond je ook bij de Jacobijnen (Robespierre).

One will re-examine the idea of direct democracy to re-appear with the destruction of feudality. In 1793, the French revolution arrives at its paroxysm. A fraction which is at the time the most progressist, the Jacobins, arrive at power with Robespierre. Robespierre, in particular in the first Commune of Paris in 1792-1793, founds and speaks about direct democracy. Robespierre contrary with all the remainder of the process of the French revolution in 1789 refuses the principle of the parliamentary delegation. The experience is very quickly fallen through since Robespierre underwent a coup d'etat and was executed.

At the time, there is a fraction even more radical: the babouvists. They are the followers of Grachus Babeuf, whom Marx or Lenin regarded as the first Communists. They want the integral direct democracy according to a mode which reminds enough that of the Libyan Jamahirya. It is known that for Moammar Kadhafi, 1793 is the great reference. When French president Jacques Chirac went to Libya the previous year, Tripoli was covered with posters doing the parallel between the French revolution and the Libyan revolution and Kadhafi said “our revolution is the following stage, the result of yours”.

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