Post-revolution revolutionary

François-Noël Babeuf (November 23, 1760 – May 27, 1797), known as Gracchus Babeuf, was a French political agitator and journalist of the revolutionary period. 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 and he was later executed for his role in the Conspiracy of the Equals. Although the words “socialist” and “communist” did not exist in Babeuf’s lifetime, they have both been used to describe his ideas by later scholars.