/lit/ - Literature

ITT: Lesser known philosophers and a brief introduction to their work.

>Henri de Saint-Simon

Set the foundation for industrialism and was the first to distinguish between the working class and the "idler" class. He detested government intervention in the economy and in this way advocated for a technocratic socialist system with utopian characteristics.

>The whole of society rests upon industry. Industry is the sole guarantee of its existence, the single source of all its wealth and all its prosperity. The state of things most favorable to industry is by that very reason the most favorable to society.