A form of early socialism based on the ideas of François-Noël Babeuf, emphasizing communal property and equality.
From the French revolutionary François-Noël Babeuf (1760-1797) plus the suffix -ism. Babeuf developed his communist theories during the French Revolution and attempted the Conspiracy of Equals in 1796.
Babouvism is a hidden ancestor of modern communism—Babeuf was plotting total equality 150 years before Marx, and his failed conspiracy actually influenced every communist movement afterward, even though most people have never heard his name!
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