MODERN SOCIALISM, FROM ST. SIMON TO KARL MARX.
1. St. Simon his originality: successive phases of
his ideas. His Positivist stage. His State Social-
ism, with the right to labour and the right to
knowledge guaranteed to the labourer. Further
advance: a new morality necessary, to be supplied
by positive philosophers; and a new religion, to be
preached by philanthropists. The "New Chris-
tianity." Its principal aim the amelioration of the
lot of the poor
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II. The St. Simonian school. Advance on the views of
the Master. The three stages in the exploitation of
man by his fellows. A radical reform declared to be
necessary in the laws of Property and Inheritance.
Their principle of distribution:-to each according
to his works. Views on Rent: on Capital. Antici-
pation of special positions of the present Collec-
tivists. Insight of the St. Simonians: merits and
defects of their ideal: specific objections