Tradition
Saint-Simonianism
Overview
Saint-Simonianism () was a French political, religious and social movement of the first half of the 19th century, inspired by the ideas of Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon.
His ideas focused on the perception that growth in industrialization and scientific discovery would have profound changes on society. He believed that society would restructure itself by abandoning traditional ideas of temporal and spiritual power. An evolution that would lead, inevitably, to a productive society based on and benefiting from, a "... union of men engaged in useful work", the basis of "true equality".
Saint-Simon discussed these ideas in a succession of journals such as l'Industrie (1816), La politique (1818) and L'Organisateur (1819–20).
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When the National Assembly reconvened in November, 1850, instead of its former petty skirmishes with the President, a great headlong struggle, a struggle for life between the two powers, seemed to have become inevitable. As in the year 1849, the party of Order had, during this year’s vacation, dissolved into its two separate factions, each occupied with its own restoration intrigues, which had received new impetus…
Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
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Its attempts to construct were in themselves fruitless; but they overthrew Polytheism, and ultimately transformed it into Monotheism. In this the last phase of theology, the intellectual authority of the priests was undermined no less deeply than the principle of their doctrine. They lost their hold upon Science, as long ago they had lost their hold upon Art. All that remained to them was the moral guidance of…
Auguste Comte, A General View of Positivism Or, Summary exposition of the System of Thought and Life
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The revolutionary literature that accompanied these first movements of the proletariat had necessarily a reactionary character. It inculcated universal asceticism and social levelling in its crudest form. The Socialist and Communist systems properly so called, those of Saint-Simon, Fourier, Owen and others, spring into existence in the early undeveloped period, described above, of the struggle between proletariat…
Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
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Philosophers who discussed Saint-Simonianism
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- French Revolution
- Auguste Comte
- Karl Marx
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- Theocracy
- Political economy
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- Napoleon
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- England
Place in the tradition
Part of French philosophy.