jacobinism means the principles of the Jacobins; especially the violent opposition to legitimate government. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 85 out of 100.
Why this word is great
JACOBINISM — [Noun] The principles of the Jacobins, characterized by radical egalitarianism and the sanctioned use of revolutionary violence to achieve political ends. From Jacobin (a member of a radical French revolutionary society, itself from the Jacobin convent where they met, named after the Rue Saint-Jacques, ultimately from Latin Jacobus, "James") + the suffix -ism, denoting a system of principles or practices. Unlike Girondism (which clung to parliamentary procedure and federalist ideals) or Conservatism (which venerates tradition and incremental reform), Jacobinism is the furnace of political will, demanding purity through annihilation. It is the scent of wet stone in a seized church, the percussive rhythm of the guillotine's fall, and the austere rhetoric of the Committee of Public Safety—a brutal conviction that a new world must be built upon the cold ashes of the old.
noun
- The principles of the Jacobins; especially the violent opposition to legitimate government.“Under this new stimulus, Burns’s previous Jacobitism passed towards the opposite, but not very distant, extreme of Jacobinism.”