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François-Noël Babeuf
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The nickname "Gracchus" likened him to the Gracchi brothers, who served as tribunes of the people in ancient Rome. Although the terms ''anarchist'', ''communist'' and ''socialist'' were not largely used in Babeuf's lifetime, they have all been used by later scholars to describe his ideas. ''Communism'' was first used in English by John Goodwyn Barmby in a conversation with those he described as the "disciples of Babeuf". He has been called "The First Revolutionary Communist."
About his political philosophy, Babeuf wrote: "Society must be made to operate in such a way that it eradicates once and for all the desire of a man to become richer, or wiser, or more powerful than others." In the ''Manifesto of the Equals'', Babeuf wrote: "The French Revolution was nothing but a precursor of another revolution, one that will be bigger, more solemn, and which will be the last." Provided by Wikipedia