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Conspiracy of Equals
Babouvism · 1795–1797 · France · Communist · Movement · coding confidence medium
Each axis runs from −10 to +10, with zero a genuine mixed or balanced position rather than an absence of opinion. A score describes a stated position and a governing record; it is not a judgement of merit. What each score means →
Core principles
Real equality requires abolishing private property; a temporary revolutionary dictatorship will impose it.
Economic model
National community of goods, common storehouses, obligatory labour, abolition of inheritance.
Organisation of powers
Insurrectionary seizure of power by a secret directorate acting for the people.
Reading note
The first fully modern communist programme, and the template for the vanguard idea a century before Lenin.
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EC · Economic organisation · scored −10
At the floor: national community of goods.
- Programme textThe Manifesto of the Equals (1796) demands the disappearance of the distinction between rich and poor.
CU · Social and cultural order · scored −05
Coded −5: absolute levelling including of education and inheritance.
- Programme textThe programme abolishes inheritance and assigns children to common education.
AU · Organisation of power · scored +07
Coded +7: a secret directorate acting for the people until equality is imposed.
- Programme textThe insurrectionary committee planned to rule by decree after seizing power.
SC · Scale of decision · scored +06
Coded +6: national storehouses and centrally directed labour.
- Programme textProduction and distribution are administered nationally in the plan.
ID · Rule of membership · scored −06
Coded −6: universal in address.
- Programme textThe appeal is to the human race rather than to the French nation.
CH · Method and tempo · scored +10
At the ceiling: insurrection as the sole method.
- Documented act or statuteBabeuf and Darthé were guillotined in 1797 after the conspiracy was betrayed.
Where it came from, and what came after
- takes its doctrine fromJacobins
The Conspiracy of Equals formed among Jacobins after Thermidor.
- gave doctrine toBolsheviks
The insurrectionary vanguard seizing power on behalf of a class, a century before Lenin.
Nearest organisations by measured distance
Straight-line separation across all six axes, out of a maximum of 49.0. Proximity means similarity of stated position, not endorsement and not resemblance in outcome.
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