Pierre Leroux

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

Pierre Leroux learned the printing press, then became a journalist and trailers Henri de Saint -Simon and founded in 1824 the journal Le Globe, which in 1831 the organ of Saint -Simon was. As Enfantin leader was the same, he separated himself from school and tried to set up a new socialist system.

After a few articles in the Jean Reynaud published by him Encyclopédie nouvelle (1841, 8 vols ), he published De l' égalité for this purpose (1838 ), Refutation de l' éclecticisme (1839 ), De l' Humanité (1840, 2 vols, 2nd edition 1845), etc.

The developed system is in a confused Reproduction Pythagorean and Buddhist teachings, mixed with Saint- Simonian ideas. In 1841 he founded with George Sand socialist Revue indépendante.

In 1846 he received the concession as a printer, organized and then headed in Boussac ( Creuse ) a socialist- cooperative printing press, published two new journals (L' Éclaireur and Revue sociale) and wrote a series of booklets.

After the outbreak of the February Revolution of 1848 he proclaimed the Republic in Boussac and was on 25 February Maire of the place. Later elected to the Constituent and the Legislative Assembly, he joined the Radical Party, whose main speaker he was.

In 1848 he published several small socialist writings, among others, over the normal working day, the organization of national labor, plutocracy, Malthus, etc. He also participated in the democratic journal La République. After the coup (1852 ) banished, he first lived a long time with his family in Jersey and published from there 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 11 April 1871 in Paris. The amnesty of 1860 he had rejected.