Conspiracy of the Equals

The Conspiracy of the Equals (French Conjuration of égaux ) was an early Nazi secret society. It was built in 1795 in the third phase of the French Revolution by François Noël Babeuf, a French revolutionaries imprisoned at this time.

The secret society aimed at overthrowing the upper-class Board and enforce through social-revolutionary measures for the benefit of landless peasants and the urban proletariat, a kind of Communist society in France.

Other names for the federal government are company or community of equals (French Société des égaux ).

History

The group led by Babeuf was formally founded after his amnesty as a Society of Friends of the Republic in Paris. Colloquially it was called - after their meeting near the Panthéon in Paris - mostly Club du Panthéon.

On February 27, 1796 Club of the young general Napoleon Bonaparte was closed on the instructions of the Board again. The other measures of the conspiracy were betrayed to 1797, Babeuf and most of his followers arrested again in May, 1796. In the following process, the leader François Noël Babeuf and Augustin Alexandre Darthe were sentenced to death and executed in late May, 1797 on the guillotine.

The other conspirators were either acquitted or, as a native of Pisa revolutionary Filippo Buonarroti, sentenced to banishment. Indeed, in the preliminary phase of the Italian Risorgimento ultimately unsuccessful attempts to realize the ideas of peers in some areas of the occupied regions of Piedmont and Lombardy from France.

Aftereffect

Filippo Buonarroti in 1828 published his main work Conspiration pour l' égalité (French for conspiracy for equality ), in which he portrayed the intellectual history of the Conspiracy of the Equals and the ideas of Babeuf. These ideas also influenced directly below left revolutionary movements of the 19th century, in France itself the particular founded by Louis -Auguste Blanqui Blanqui.

Even later activists and theorists of anarchism as well as communism - under the one about Pierre Joseph Proudhon, among other Wilhelm Weitling ( League of the Just ) and Karl Marx ( Communist League ) - appealed to the theses of Babeuf, the ideas of peers and on the first attempt, the concept of a classless society in the achievement of political practice.