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Understanding Socialism: Part Two. The Seeds of Socialism.

Unf*cking The Republic

CHAPTER

The Roots of Socialism

Second industrial revolution in France set stage for birth of socialist theory. Henri Saint-Simone, Charles Fourier and Robert Owen are considered by most to be the true intellectual progenitors of socialism. The idea that all these advances might themselves supplant the traditional role of the state is a fundamental shift from Enlightenment thinking.

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