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the idea of general will were
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picked up by the radicals of the French Revolution,
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the Jacobins,
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and was picked up by later Communists of various types,
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be it Leninists or Maoists.
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Well the general will and French radicalism led to bloodshed.
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Robespierre,
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the major disciple and believer of general will,
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his head was also chopped off.
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Well, so much about it.
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Now Rousseau did not live the French Revolution;
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his ideas did, and informed it.