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people who no longer threaten the existing order . ... 'This function of maintaining
order can then easily become . .. a task shared by all citizens whether it be to
contain troublemakers or to settle disputes.'4 Instead of an instrument for the
domination of men, the state system becomes a system for the administration of
things . ... And the chief task of this administrative authority, whose agents will be
the scholars, artists, and industrialists, ... is to organize the cultivation of' the
terrestrial globe." V. Voighl, 'ioU-her die historische SteHung Saint-Simons," in
Ma.rx-Engels Archiv, ed. D. Rjazanov, vol. 1 (Frankfurt am Main), pp. 104-105.
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On the idea of the total work of art, according to Saint-Simon, Oeuvres choisies,
vol. 3, pp. 358-360: " Saint-Simon indulges in fantasies about the development of a
cult through the combined efforts of prophets, poets, musicians, sculptors, and
architects. All the arts are to be united so as to make the cult useful to society, and
so as, through the cult, to restructure humanity in the spirit of Christian morals."
V. Voighl, I.I.Uber die historische Stellung Saint-Simons," in Marx-Engels Archiv,
vo!' 1 (Frankfurt am Main), p. 109. [U5a,1J
Concerning the representation of Louis Philippe.-Saint-Simon teaches that I.l.the
industrial system is not in contradiction with royal power. The king will become
the First Industrial, just as he has been the First Soldier in the kingdom."5 V. Volgin,
"iller die historische Stellllng Saint-Simons," in Marx-Engels Archiv, vol. 1
(Frankfurt am Main), p. 112. [U5a,2J
Saint-Simon was a forerunner of the technocrats. [U5a,3J
Two passages from Le Globe (October 31 and November 25, 1831), concerning the
workers' uprising in Lyons: "we, defenders of A.LL workers-from the leaders of
industry to the humblest laborers"; and concerning the working class: "It is agonizing
for us to see the workers degraded by brutality. Our heart bleeds at the sight
of such moral privations, quite as hideous, in their way, as physical privations
. ... We would like . .. to inspire the workers with . .. our own sentiments of
order, peace, and friendly accord." In the same publication, an expression of
approval for the address of the Saint-Simonians from Lyons, who "have preserved
Saint-Simonian calm." Cited in E. Tarle, "Del' Lyoner Arbeiteraufstand," in
Ma.rx-Engels Archiv, ed. Rjazanov, vol. 2 (Frankfurt am Main, 1928), pp. 108,
109, Ill. [U5a,4J
Important material relating to the history of the railroad, and particularly of the
locomotive, in Karl Kautsky, Die malerialislische GeJchiclzlJau.!JasJung, vol. 1 (Ber­
lin, 1927), pp. 645ff. What emerges is the great importance of mining for the
railroads, not only because locomotives were first used in mines but also because
iron rails canle from there. We are thus referred back to the use that was made of
rails (originally, no doubt, of wood) in the operation of tipcarts. [U5a,5J