Guilhem Mevel holds a research master’s in political theory awarded by Sciences Po. His master’s thesis was entitled: “Can Radical Democracy be Representative? A Materialist History of the Imperative Mandate”. He has taught at Science Po since 2023.
He is currently working on his PhD thesis on Marxist reworkings of Jacobin political thought under the supervision of Gil Delannoi and Stéphanie Roza.

In order to shed light on the relationship between political emancipation and human emancipation, his thesis will account for the legacy of various dimensions of Jacobinism that can be found in Marxist theory. Thus, despite ideological criticism of the Jacobins in texts written by the young Marx, the strategy of permanent revolution adopted by Marx and Engels was inspired in many ways by the French Revolution. However, the failure of the revolutionary movement prompted Marx to criticize his own relationship with Jacobinism, as epitomized by the Eighteenth Brumaire, written in 1852. In the second stage, a comparison will be made on this basis between the late Engels, Lenin and Jaures. Such a comparison will allow Marxist re-readings of Jacobinism to be tested. This approach will allow a particular conception of the relationship between republicanism and communism to be determined according to three different matrices: accomplishment, integration or accumulation.