The French Revolution

[RedRedRose]

Laura Mason published The Last Revolutionaries: The Conspiracy Trial of Gracchus Babeuf and the Equals last year.

If you're unfamiliar with Gracchus Babeuf, his Conspiracy of Equals attempts a revolutionary revival in the Directory period (1795-9) that tries to go further than the Jacobins, by putting together a programme of abolishing property. For this reason his legacy has some fanfare amongst Marxists.

Here, is an extended interview with Mason discussing this particular facet of the French Revolution. Highly recommended!

 

[seventh bullet]

Laura Mason published The Last Revolutionaries: The Conspiracy Trial of Gracchus Babeuf and the Equals last year.

If you're unfamiliar with Gracchus Babeuf, his Conspiracy of Equals attempts a revolutionary revival in the Directory period (1795-9) that tries to go further than the Jacobins, by putting together a programme of abolishing property. For this reason his legacy has some fanfare amongst Marxists.

Here, is an extended interview with Mason discussing this particular facet of the French Revolution. Highly recommended!

I bought her book last year. I like me a bit proto-communist history. The Spectre of Babeuf by Ian Birchall is what I've earlier read on the subject.

 

[DaveCinzano]

This looks interesting

Danton (1983 film) - Wikipedia

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Rewatched this recently, it's still very absorbing.

(The recent Napoleon on the other hand...)

 

[Elpenor]

Wonder if its still too early to judge the French Revolution?

 

[PTK]

Rewatched this recently, it's still very absorbing.

(The recent Napoleon on the other hand...)

Danton, the film, is on Youtube

 

[tim]

I lost my copy of The Terror about ten years ago when I was halfway through, so I'll never know how things ended up for the French.

It's too soon to tell, anyway.

 

[yield]

Wonder if its still too early to judge the French Revolution?

It's too soon to tell, anyway.

Zhou Enlai was talking about 1968

 

[GroovySunday]

Danton, the film, is on Youtube

Marat/Sade from 1967 is also on YouTube

 

[Elpenor]

Zhou Enlai was talking about 1968

I certainly knew that

 

[PTK]

Zhou Enlai was talking about 1968

Do we know that for sure?

 

[yield]

Do we know that for sure?

I wasn't there.