SOCIALISM

EARLY FRENCH SOCIALISTS Count Henri de Saint-Simon

Industrialization is the key to progress

An administration of experts is needed to effectively distribute goods to everyone

The parasites at the top of society should give way to those who create good for others Scientists, engineers,

industrialists EVERY government program

should help the poor

EARLY FRENCH SOCIALISTS Pierre Joseph Proudhon

Property – profit stolen from the workerSociety is split into “those who own” and

“those who have been stolen from”

EARLY FRENCH SOCIALISTS Charles Fourier

Sought a planned economy and socialist communities Similar to Robert Owen

Seven communities built by his ideas

Different Thoughts Marriage is bad but

sexual union is good Pay grade is based on the

unpleasantness of the job Other predictions

EARLY FRENCH SOCIALISTS Louis Blanc

Urged workers to fight for suffrage to take control of the state peacefully

Government should set up workshops and factories to guarantee full employment

The root of all evil is competition

CHRISTIAN SOCIALISM

FRIEDERICH ENGLES AND KARL MARX

GEORG HEGEL – THE DIALECTIC

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