K Marx St Simon entronpeanur synthesis

Replace Ayn Rand's idealist business person of her ideology with:

1) Saint Simon utopian socialistic entrepreneurship:

However it should not be forgotten that Marx criticizes Saint-Simon on two

fundamental issues: his erroneous vision of the nature of class conflict, i.e. his

tendency to see crucial opposition between ‘idle’ and ‘industrial’ classes, the latter including the entrepreneurs and the workers; his fancying an ideal society

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imbued with hierarchical and technocratic principles of organization, in which

the workers must obey the entrepreneurs anyway (Meldolesi, 1982, 54–62).

It seems that Saint-Simon’s thought was assimilated by Marx very early, i.e.

in Berlin in 1843, under the influence of Edward Gans, a law professor who

tried to combine Saint-Simon with Hegel. But various intellectual exchanges

with his future father-in-law, Ludwig von Westphalen, had paved the way

(Gurwitch, 1948; Cornu, 1955, 67).

6 On these aspects of Marx’s and Engels’ theo

 Saint-Simonianism

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•  Adam Smith Thought
•  Christian Socialism
•  Enlightenment Thought
•  Industrialism
•  Meritocracy
•  Technocracy

AND

2) Proletariat/ Working class solidarity i.e public ownership of the means of production