It hearkened back to the May 1796 Conspiracy of the Equals of Gracchus Babeuf and his associates, who tried to overthrow the Directory in May 1796 during the French Revolution.
Buonarroti's writings influenced many French revolutionaries in the 1830s and 1840s, among them Théodore Dézamy, Richard Lahautière, Albert Laponneraye and Jean-Jacques Pillot.
[citation needed] The neo-Babouvists represented the extreme left-wing of the neo-Jacobin republican movement.
[citation needed] They provided a link or a contrast between the utopian socialism of the French Revolution and Marxism.
The writings of Buonarroti and through them the doctrines of Babeuf also had a considerable influence on some socialists, such as those within the British Chartist movement of 1838-1858,[5] notably on James Bronterre O'Brien (1804-1864).