What does one’s familial descent have to do with a political movement? Modern Communism was a post Industrial Revolution modification of Enlightenment utopianism going back to The French Revolution and before. Your ‘Conspiracy of Rabbis’ story would make good fodder for Dan Brown.
A bunch.
Your ‘Conspiracy of Rabbis’ story would make good fodder for Dan Brown.
Excuse me, but the source of this was the chief justice of the Orthodox Jewish Supreme Court. If you think those folks don't demand documentation, you are smoking something. Just because it didn't make it into the history books you read, doesn't mean it isn't fact.
BTW, the Sabbateans were instrumental in the Jacobin Revolution and the Enlightenment, and yes, I have read Peter Gay's recount.