Oddball
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BTW, Rousseau was a socialist prototype.Oh and for Oddball:
social contract
noun
1.
the voluntary agreement among individuals by which, according to any of various theories, as of Hobbes, Locke, or Rousseau, organized society is brought into being and invested with the right to secure mutual protection and welfare or to regulate the relations among its members.
2.
an agreement for mutual benefit between an individual or group and the government or community as a whole.
Social contract | Define Social contract at Dictionary.com
If you want to talk French revolutionaries, my views much more reflect Frédéric Bastiat than Rousseau, whom Bastiat also believed to be all wet.
I recommend this brief (novella length), highly informative and absorbing read....
The Law, by Frederic Bastiat