Research topic: Louis Blanc

Louis Blanc , 1811-82, French socialist politician and journalist and historian. In his noted Organisation du travail (1840, tr. Organization of Work, 1911), he outlined his ideal of a new social order based on the principle "Let each produce according to his aptitudes?…?let each consume according to his need." He advocated, as a first stage in the achievement of this goal, a system of national workshops ( ateliers sociaux ) controlled by workingmen with the support of the state. He attacked the Louis Philippe government in Histoire de dix ans (5 vol., 1841-44,... Read more