Projet de communauté philosophe

Projet de communauté philosophe (translated as Project for a Philosophical Community) is a book written by the French philosopher Victor d'Hupay, published in 1777.

Review

This book can be seen as a cornerstone in the history of communism, as it describes for the first time how "communists" (people living in a "commune") should understand this philosophy. In this work, the author advises to 'share all economic and material products between inhabitants of the "commune", so that all may benefit from everybody's work'.[1]

Restif de la Bretonne, a contemporary and friend of d'Hupay, thus describes him as a "communist" in a 1785 publication[2][3]

The book was partly written in d'Hupay's own bastide in Meyreuil, near Aix-en-Provence, where he was determined to set his own commune and live by the communist philosophy, with neighbours and friends.[4]

Additional information

There is currently only one known public copy of this original edition, which is kept at the Diderot Library in Lyon.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Cassely, 2016 : Aix insolite et secrète JonGlez p. 192-193 (references from the Bibliothèque nationale de France)
  2. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2017-01-31. Retrieved 2017-03-08.
  3. ↑ Grandjonc Jacques,1983: Quelques dates à propos des termes communiste et communisme In: Mots, n°7, Octobre 1983 p. 146 (reference on the Persée library)
  4. ↑ http://www.hupay.fr/pages/vie-d-hupay.html
  5. ↑ http://www.worldcat.org/title/projet-de-communaute-philosophe/oclc/491640865&referer=brief_results
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