LÉVI-STRAUSS, Claude.

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Gracchus Babeuf & le communisme. First edition of the author's first published work, offprinted from its appearance in the Brussels socialist magazine L'Églantine, and rare, Rare Book Hub recording only one auction appearance and WorldCat locating only five institutional copies.Writing with all the fervour of the 18-year-old student that he then was, Lévi-Strauss praises Babeuf's "Conjuration des Égaux" plot in the French Revolution, criticizes private property, and exalts Rousseau. The author later dismissed the work as "an accident... which I would rather forget" (Wilcken, p. 30).

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