# Babeuf — What Is Property? character guide

> Babeuf in What Is Property? by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Gracchus Babeuf

**First appearance:** 0002-what-is-property

## Who they are

Revolutionary communist cited in radical property debates.

## In the story

### [§ 7: That Inequality of Powers Is the Necessary Condition of Equality of Fortunes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/what_is_property_se/chapters/7-that-inequality-of-powers-is-the-necessary-condition-of-equality-of-fortunes)

Mentioned as wishing to repress all superiority as a social calamity.

### [§ 2 Characteristics of Communism and of Property](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/what_is_property_se/chapters/part-ii-2)

Mentioned as a follower whose movement was ruined by exaggeration of anti-property principles.

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