Actually JFM Babeouf was part of the Conspiracy of Equals, which was after the terror and after Robespierre became a victim of the terror he created. Fairly difficult for Robespierre to then be the agent of Babeoufs demise wouldn’t you think?
Secondly red as a communist color comes from the red hats the Sans-culottes of the French Revolution wore. They were the working class radicals who drove the class warfare of the French Revolution. They were the violent mobs that Robespierre was playing to during the terror. You know lop off the aristocrats heads and be a hero to the radical working class. It’s the same formula used by Lenin, Mao, Castro, and Pol Pot to name a few of the better known mass murderers.
Facts are such annoying inconveniences.
