How American Progressives Became French Jacobins

"Jacobinisme and Bolchévisme are at the same time two dictatorships, two civil war and foreign wars, two class dictatorships, operating through the same means, terror, requisition and taxes, and being proposed as a last resort , the transformation of society, and not only of the Russian society or of the French society, but of the universal society.

The two dictatorships are out of defeat and are imposed by the embezzlement. It is the tradition of Dumouriez, the disasters of Belgium, the retreat of the armies on all fronts that allowed the Montagnards to cross the Girondins, rendered responsible, by the Parisian days of May 31 and June 2, 1793. It is the failure of the offensive given by Kérensky in July 1917, following the adventure of Kornilov, who allowed the Soviets to succeed the October 25, 1917, embezzlement in Petrograd. There is an apparent difference. The Montagnards have the power to intensify war and force victory. The Bolchevists, on the other hand, do not think at the outset that to make peace, peace at all costs. But it is to be expected that Montagnards and Bolchevists will not regard peace or war as a means of saving the Revolution. Ahead of Russia's depletion and general easement, Lenin is convinced that peace is a necessary "repeat" to consolidate the results of her coup. Robespierre, on the contrary, stating the patriotism of the country and knowing its resources, believes that the salute of the Revolution is inevitably attached to the immediate victory over the battlefields. By opposing voices, the two dictatorships pursue the triumph of their party and the realization of their ideal. Since his government will be a little better assisted on its bases, Lenin will form the Red Army and resume the offensive.

The two dictatorships are used on the lower classes, but they are conducted by the transfuges of the senior class leaders."

Source:
Le Bolchévisme et le Jacobinisme, Albert Mathiez, January 1920
https://www.marxists.org/francais/mathiez/works/1920/01/bolchevisme.htm

Very interesting turn of event sir MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D.

Sliding down a huge slope.