Jacobins forged town-country bonds, persisting in successor forms after defeat.

Evidence

A comparison may be made between the Jacobins and the Action Party. The Jacobins strove with determination to ensure a bond between town and country, and they succeeded triumphantly. Their defeat as a specific party was due to the fact that at a certain point they came up against the demands of the Paris workers; but in reality they were perpetuated in another form by Napoleon, and today, very wretchedly, by the radical-socialists of Herriot and Daladier. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 439

Categorization

• SEED: The Jacobins’ urban-rural bond as a template for how parties win mass legitimacy — an angle on how movements must bridge elite and popular strata.