Philippe Buonarroti

Philippe Buonarroti
Portrait of Filippo Buonarotti, 1830, Philippe-Auguste Jeanron
Portrait of Filippo Buonarotti, 1830, Philippe-Auguste Jeanron
BornFilippo Giuseppe Maria Ludovico Buonarroti
(1761-11-11)11 November 1761
Pisa, Grand Duchy of Tuscany
Died16 September 1837(1837-09-16) (aged 75)
Paris, Kingdom of France
OccupationWriter, 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.


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