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Jiang reads Robespierre's political dream as a world of equality, liberation, controlled passions, and general prosperity, close to communism in spirit.
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Equality
Jiang calls the Peasants' War a proto-communist movement because peasants sought equality, democracy, and freedom as God's will before being massacred by aristocratic armies.
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Jiang calls the Peasants' War a proto-communist movement because peasants sought equality, democracy, and freedom as God's will before being massacred by aristocratic armies.
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The second message is meritocratic revolution: class, caste, and tribal loyalties violate God's will because all are equal as God's children.
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In Jiang's reconstruction, Muhammad's law promised equality, mercy, tolerance, openness, and divine justice.
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"This law this justice this equality is what God promised us because it's implanted in our hearts. We all yearn for this world when..."
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"...the community grow and thrive. Where distinctions are born only of equality itself. Where the citizen is subject to the magistrate the magistrate to..."
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"And as I mentioned, the first believers in the Protestant religion are actually townspeople. That's aspirational middle class. They want to be connected with..."
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"These are people who wanted total equality and democracy and freedom in the world, because they believe that is the will of God, okay?..."
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"Second thing that you can say is that we are, we, okay, so you're basically creating a meritocracy. The idea of meritocracy is basically..."
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"...heaven on earth. We will follow God's law. God's law demands equality. It demands mercy and tolerance. It demands openness. That is God's law...."
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"Okay? So he is the Messiah. He's the promised one. God has ordered him to do this. Appeared to them as a preacher. Okay?..."
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"...want the system because they have more money, they have more equality, but also the people who really want the system are the middle..."
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"...bad what we should have is just everyone the same okay equality all right and that's the idea of Marxism destroy all property okay..."
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"...Jews follow him because he's preaching a message of liberation of equality of freedom."
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"...remarkable, about the religion is it is one that preached egalitarianism, equality, as well as peacefulness. And the religion becomes the prototype for Buddhism..."
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"...was part of a larger mandatory simplification. At one stroke, the equality of all French people before the law was guaranteed by the state...."
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Robespierre is not read as a dictator who simply loses control.
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The Protestant Reformation begins as liberation from priest, pope, and ritual.
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A source-grounded reading of Islam's rise as Jiang's first global revolution: a thin archive, a Moses-like prophet, a desert mistaken for backwardness, and a movement that fused religious devotion with revolt against debt, landlessness,...
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