No documented evidence shows Gustave Le Bon directly interacting with early communist movements in France. Le Bon (1841–1931) was a conservative thinker focused on crowd psychology, critiquing mass movements like the Paris Commune (1871) as irrational chaos in works like The Psychology of Peoples (1894). He opposed revolutionary socialism, viewing it as crowd-driven delusion rather than constructive ideology.

Early French communism, tied to figures like Louise Michel or Karl Marx's The Communist Manifesto (1848), predated Le Bon's major writings. He analyzed revolutions comparatively but didn't engage activists.

Lenin (1870–1924) was in France briefly in 1900–1902 (Paris) and 1910–1912, during Le Bon's active period, but no records indicate contact. Lenin was building Bolshevik networks, while Le Bon lectured and wrote. Sources like Reddit discussions in communist forums note Lenin's reading of The Crowd (possibly for propaganda insights), but that's intellectual influence, not interaction.

For deeper reading: Lenin's Paris Years or Le Bon's The Crowd analyses.

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