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Louis Auguste Blanqui (French pronunciation: [lwi oɡyst blɑ̃ki]; 8 February 1805 – 1 January 1881) was a French socialist, political philosopher and political activist, notable for his revolutionary theory of Blanquism.
BLANQUI, LOUIS AUGUSTE (1805-1881), French publicist, was born on the 1st of February 1805 at Puget-Théniers, where his father, Jean Dominique Blanqui, was at that time subprefect. He studied both law and medicine, but found his real vocation in politics, and at once constituted himself a champion of the most advanced opinions.
Blanqui believed that progress was the advance of enlightenment over ignorance, atheism over religion, science over superstition, and association and cooperation over individualism. He disavowed theories of progress that justified the existing order and the reign of the bourgeoisie.
Louis-Auguste Blanqui. Auguste Blanqui (1805-1881) was nick-named " l'enfermé " because over half of his adult life was spent in jail. He is remembered as an activist, an insurgent, involved in abortive insurrectionary movements in 1839, 1840, and 1870. Blanqui's father, a Tuscan lecturer in philosophy, embraced the French Republic and became ...
May 2, 2023 · Louis-Auguste Blanqui Archive. 1805-1881. “it is my duty as a proletarian, deprived of all the rights of the city, to reject the competence of a court where only the privileged classes who are not my peers sit in judgment over me”. [Defence Speech]. Biography of Blanqui.
Oct 13, 2018 · Louis August Blanqui was a key revolutionary leader in the French Socialist movement. Yet when the Paris Commune erupted in 1871, Blanqui was in prison, leaving his core of followers without leadership. Failing to defeat inevitable counter-revolution, this experiment in social emancipation was crushed in blood.
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Louis-Auguste Blanqui (1805-1881) was one of the most important figures in nineteenth-century French revolutionary politics, and he played a role in all of the great upheavals that punctuated his life – the insurrections of 1830, 1848 and 1870-71.
