Pierre Leroux

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Pierre Henri Leroux (born April 17, 1797 in Berri near Paris , † April 11, 1871 in Paris) was a French philosopher and socialist.

Life

Pierre Leroux learned the printing trade, then became a journalist and supporter of Henri de Saint-Simons and founded the Journal Le Globe in 1824 , which in 1831 became the organ of the Saint-Simonists. When Barthélemy Prosper enfantin became leader of the same, he left the school and tried to set up a new socialist system.

After several articles in the Encyclopédie nouvelle (1841, 8 vols.), Which he edited with Jean Reynaud, he published De l'égalité (1838), Réfutation de l'éclecticisme (1839), De l'humanité (1840, 2 Vol .; 2nd ed. 1845) etc.

The system developed therein is a confused reproduction of Pythagorean and Buddhist teachings mixed with Saint-Simonist ideas. In 1841 he founded the socialist revue indépendante with George Sand .

In 1846 he was granted a license as a printer, organized and then headed a socialist-cooperative printing company in Boussac (Creuse) , published two new journals ( L'Éclaireur and Revue sociale ) and wrote a number of brochures.

After the outbreak of the February Revolution in 1848, he proclaimed the republic in Boussac and became mayor of the town on February 25th. Later elected to the constituent and legislative assemblies, he joined the radical party, of which he was the main speaker.

In 1848 he published various small socialist pamphlets, among others on the normal working day, the organization of national work, the plutocracy , Malthus, etc. He also participated in the democratic journal La République . Exiled after the coup d'état (1852), he first lived for a long time with his family in Jersey and from there published the socio-philosophical poem La Grève de Samarez . Later he lived mostly in Lausanne. After the amnesty of 1869 he returned to France and died on April 11, 1871 in Paris. He had rejected the amnesty of 1860.

Leroux equated the Jews with capitalism and advocated their deportation to Asia.

Heinrich Heine called him “the first church father of communism”.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mario Keßler: Socialism . In: Wolfgang Benz (Hrsg.): Handbuch des Antisemitismus . Volume 3: Concepts, ideologies, theories. De Gruyter Saur, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-598-24074-4 , p. 306 (accessed via De Gruyter Online).
  2. ↑ Jan-Christoph Hauschild, Michael Werner: "The purpose of life is life itself." Heinrich Heine. A biography . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1997, p. 236.
personal data
SURNAME Leroux, Pierre
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leroux, Pierre Henri (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French philosopher and socialist
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1797
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH April 11, 1871
Place of death Paris