Selected Works of Saint-Simon, Volume 1

Author: Wang Yansheng, Xu Zhongnian, Xu Jien, Dong Guoliang
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Publish Date: 1979-12-01
Features: Henri de Saint-Simon was a distinguished French thinker and one of the prominent representatives of utopian socialism. Marx and Engels ranked him alongside Fourier and Owen as one of the three great utopian socialists. Saint-Simon strongly opposed the unproductive feudal aristocracy and military class, believing that society should be led by industrialists and scientists. He also proposed a series of socialist-inspired ideas, such as the implementation of universal labor obligations, planned economies, and labor-based distribution. However, due to the immature historical conditions of the time, Saint-Simon's theories also had significant limitations, primarily manifested in his advocacy for retaining private ownership and treating the promotion of peace as the sole means of achieving social transformation. The original edition of this selected works was translated from a Russian version, and for this revised edition, it was thoroughly corrected according to the French original Oeuvres complètes de Saint-Simon and supplemented with several articles that were not included in the Russian translation.