
While he did not support the Paris Commune, he successfully proposed amnesty to the Communards.īlanc was born in Madrid. Blanc returned to France in 1870, shortly before the conclusion of the Franco-Prussian War, where he served as a member of the National Assembly for Seine.


Blanc's advocacy failed caught between radical worker tendencies and the National Guard, he was forced into exile. These cooperatives were to be associations of people who produced together and divided the profit accordingly.įollowing the Revolution of 1848, Blanc became a member of the provisional government and began advocating for cooperatives which would be initially aided by the government but ultimately controlled by the workers themselves. He wanted the government to encourage cooperatives and replace capitalist enterprises. Although Blanc's ideas of the workers' cooperatives were never realized, his political and social ideas greatly contributed to the development of socialism in France. He called for the creation of cooperatives in order to guarantee employment for the urban poor. Louis Jean Joseph Charles Blanc ( / b l ɑː n/ French: 29 October 1811 – 6 December 1882) was a French socialist politician, journalist and historian.

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