Reactions to story from Positive Liberty

What can be said about Saint-Simon? He is little read today and even less appreciated, that much is true. And on reading the “Letter from an Inhabitant of Geneva to His Contemporaries,†one is tempted to ask: Is this what they call socialism? It is, it is. Before Marx, many notions that passed for socialism amounted ultimately to claims that this or that method of production would be more agreeable or more efficient. In retrospect, the more successful of them don’t really look all that much different from capitalism at all, while the less successful look like failed experiments in the same.