Babeufism

Sometimes called collectivism (from the Latin collectivus), though this term broadly applies to the entire class of ideologies it spawned.

A revolutionary leftist movement that emerged in the wake of the French Revolution, particularly popular among the agrarian peasantry. It advocates the creation of a classless society, one based predominantly on the organization of former tenant farmers into agricultural collectives. Due to the pre-industrial conditions in which it emerged, the later rise of the urban laborer was mostly unforseen, and their place in the new, revolutionary society the Babeufists envisioned would be the source of the first major divisons within the movement.