Henri de Saint-Simon Quotes on Politics
Saint-Simon's late industrial writings — particularly On the Industrial System (1821) and the Catechism of the Industrialists (1823–24) — defended the project of reorganizing European political life under the joint leadership of the productive industrial class and the scientific intelligentsia, displacing the inherited aristocratic and clerical orders whose social functions had on Saint-Simon's account become obsolete with the rise of modern industrial production. The framework supplied the philosophical seed of subsequent French socialism — Saint-Simonian, Fourierist, and the early Marx — and of the technocratic political programmes that the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries would develop in industrialized states across Europe and the Americas.
Quotes
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Attributed to Henri de Saint-Simon:
“From each according to his capacity, to each according to his work.”
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Attributed to Henri de Saint-Simon:
“Industrial society replaces feudal society.”
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“The whole of society ought to strive toward the amelioration of the moral and physical existence of the poorest class.”
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“The age of the producers replaces the age of the warriors.”
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Attributed to Henri de Saint-Simon:
“The new Christianity is the religion of progress.”
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“Politics is the science of production . De L'Industrie (1816), in Saint-Simon: sa víe et ses travaux (1857), by M. G. Hubbard, pp. 156–157”
La politique est … la science de la production. -
“The whole of society rests upon industry. Industry is the sole guarantee of its existence, the single source of all its wealth and all its prosperity. The state of things most favorable to industry is by that very reason the most favorable to society.”
L'Industrie , in Œuvres de Saint-Simon , Vol. 18 (Paris, 1868), p. 13