Revolution 9
9th February 2006, 22:41
As some of you here who are interested in the French Revolution, and especially the Communist, Socialist, and Anarchist movements during the French Revolution, you probably already have heard about Auguste Blanqui and Gracchus Babeuf.
I am interested in learning more about these two people and their ideas on a Communist world, especially the part in which they believe about a dictatorship...
This is what I found at marxists.org:
(1805-1881) Founder of the communist movement in the 1830s, he believed communism could be achieved by the dictatorship of a radical minority. He was immensely popular in France and elsewhere but spent most of his days in prison.
The conspiracy of equality organised by Babeuf and his followers aimed at provoking an armed uprising of the plebeian masses against the bourgeois regime of the Directory and establishing a revolutionary dictatorship as a transitional stage to pure democracy and egalitarian communism. The conspiracy was disclosed in May 1796. At the end of May 1797 its leaders were executed.
My question here is what were their general ideas for this dictatorship? For Babeuf more specifically, what were his ideas on how this "transitional stage" would pass and what were his ideas on how this "revolutionary dictatorship" would work.
EDIT: Furthermore, would it be reasonable to say that Babeuf's ideas were more or less the same as the Marxist-Leninist theory of a Socialist transitional stage?
I am interested in learning more about these two people and their ideas on a Communist world, especially the part in which they believe about a dictatorship...
This is what I found at marxists.org:
(1805-1881) Founder of the communist movement in the 1830s, he believed communism could be achieved by the dictatorship of a radical minority. He was immensely popular in France and elsewhere but spent most of his days in prison.
The conspiracy of equality organised by Babeuf and his followers aimed at provoking an armed uprising of the plebeian masses against the bourgeois regime of the Directory and establishing a revolutionary dictatorship as a transitional stage to pure democracy and egalitarian communism. The conspiracy was disclosed in May 1796. At the end of May 1797 its leaders were executed.
My question here is what were their general ideas for this dictatorship? For Babeuf more specifically, what were his ideas on how this "transitional stage" would pass and what were his ideas on how this "revolutionary dictatorship" would work.
EDIT: Furthermore, would it be reasonable to say that Babeuf's ideas were more or less the same as the Marxist-Leninist theory of a Socialist transitional stage?