Conspiracy of Equals w/ Laura Mason
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How Did Babouf Look Back to the 18th Century Philosophers?
scholarship on the French Revolution has not paid sufficient attention to Babouf and the equals or to the directory. Where my book fits in to the scholarship is by turning the conversation away from what kind of communist was Babouf. What I have done is restore attention to who Babouf was during the French Revolution, not how did he look forward to Marx? And that leads me to the second part of your question, which is what does this have to do with the directory?
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