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Conspiracy of Equals w/ Laura Mason
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Length:
137 minutes
Released:
Oct 18, 2022
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Podcast episode
Description
Featuring Laura Mason on her book The Last Revolutionaries: The Conspiracy Trial of Gracchus Babeuf and the Equals. Mason discusses Babeuf's call to abolish property, his radically egalitarian conspiracy against the Directory government, and the end of the French Revolution. How a centrist government turned its back on popular democracy, presided over growing inequality and working-class poverty, and abetted the rise of the reactionary right that would ultimately overthrow it.
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Released:
Oct 18, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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