Saint-Simonianism was a French political and social movement of the first half of the nineteenth century, inspired by the ideas of Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon. Saint-Simon has been 'variously portrayed as a utopian socialist, the founder of sociology and a prescient madman'. His ideas, expressed largely though a succession of journals such as l'Industrie (1816), La politique (1818) and L'Organisateur (1819-20) centred on a perception that growth in industrialization and scienti… (More on Saint-simonianism)