Philippe Buonarroti | |
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Born | Filippo Giuseppe Maria Ludovico Buonarroti 11 November 1761 Pisa, Grand Duchy of Tuscany |
Died | 16 September 1837 Paris, Kingdom of France | (aged 75)
Occupation | Writer, philosopher, conspirator |
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Filippo Giuseppe Maria Ludovico Buonarroti (11 November 1761 – 16 September 1837), more usually referred to by the French version Philippe Buonarroti, was an Italian utopian socialist, writer, agitator, freemason, and conspirator. He was active in Corsica, France, and Geneva. His History of Babeuf’s Conspiracy of Equals (1828) became a quintessential text for revolutionaries, inspiring such socialists as Louis Auguste Blanqui and Karl Marx. He proposed a mutualist strategy that would revolutionize society by stages, starting from monarchy to liberalism, then to radicalism, and finally to communism.