Saint-Simonianism

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 cause profound changes in 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).