Theodore Dézamy

Alexandre Theodore Dézamy , born in 1803 with Luçon (the Vendée), died in 1850, is a French socialist theorist.

Theorist of utopian Communism under Louis-Philippe I {{er}}, Dézamy leaves the Vendée for Paris, where he follows the occupation of schoolmaster. In the capital, it adheres to various secret republican companies (in particular, with the Société of the seasons in 1839) and binds with one of the principal representatives of the socialist movement of this time, Etienne Cabet, of which he became the secretary. Later, he criticizes his conciliating tactic and his opportunism, rejecting his calls to the assistance in favors of the workmen near the middle-class men like unrealistic persons and inviting the proletariat to link and to release itself.

In 1840, it is one of the organizers of the “communist banquet” with Belleville. In July 1846, Dézamy founds the levelling Communists, who are the subject of continuations the following year.

At the time of the Revolution of February 1848, it defends the claims of the workers actively. With Blanqui, it founds the central republican Société in 1848.

In its utopian theories, it is located in the line of Morelly, Babeuf and Fourier, combatant Communism " pacifique" of Cabet and " socialism chrétien" of Lamennais. Its philosophical designs materialists and atheists make of it a disciple of Helvétius. In the Holy Family , Marx testifies to a great regard for the doctrines of Dézamy, which he regards as one of the communist disciples most consequent of the philosophers materialists of the XVIIIe century who has developed the doctrines of the materialism as doctrines of real humanism and as logical Communism bases.

The major work of Dézamy is the Code of the Community , published in November 1842. Divided into 19 chapters and containing 47 articlees of faith, the book describes a communist Phalanstère inspired by the materialism of the XVIIIe century. Werner Sombart considers that this work anticipates the revolutionary socialism of Marx.

Works

Question suggested by the Academy of Science morals and policies: the nations advance more in knowledge, in lights that in morals practices… , Paris, L. - E. Herhan and Bimont, 1839,68 Patriotic pages
, read and redden of shame! : opinion of the French and foreign newspapers on the question of the East, the treaty of July 15th and the war, speeches of the crown, parts diplomatic… (in collaboration with Cabet), Paris, Burgundy printing works and Martinet, 1840,96 pages
Mr. Lamennais refuted by itself, or critical Examination of the entitled book " Past and future of the peuple" , Paris, the author, 1841,94 pages
Code of the community , Paris, Prévost, Rouannet, 1842,292 pages
Examen criticizes of the eight speeches on Catholicism and philosophy, pronounced with Notre-Dame, in December 1844 and in January 1845, by Mr. the Lacordaire abbot; preceded by a historical note on the order by Dominican and the biography of Mr. the abbot Lacordaire , Paris, booksellers, 1845,35 pages
Organization of freedom and the universal wellbeing… , Paris, Guarin, 1846,120 pages

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