# the Jacobins — Essays character guide

> the Jacobins in Essays by Errico Malatesta.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0015-the-dictatorship-of-the-proletariat-and-anarchy

## Who they are

Historical French revolutionaries, invoked as a cautionary example of centralized power.

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