1796 ⟶ Babeuf Founds Les Égaux to Advocate for Communism
March 30: François-Noël Babeuf, known as "Gracchus Babeuf", ...
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1797
✊ Babeuf Founds Les Égaux to Advocate for Communism
March 30: François-Noël Babeuf, known as "Gracchus Babeuf", the ultra-leftist leader and precursor of Communism, forms an insurrectional committee and movement, called Les Égaux ("the Equals"), to overthrow the government. They hold a demonstration in Paris on April 6.⟶
French RevolutionRadicalismCommunismSocialismEqualityRevolutionary MovementsPolitical TheoryBabeufLes Égaux
