Constantin Pecqueur


Charles Constantin Pecqueur 26 October 1801 – 17 December 1887 was the French economist, socialist theoretician as living as politician. He participated in a Revolution of 1848 & influenced Karl Marx.

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"Pecqueur's originality as a theorist rests on his understanding of the consequences inherent in the industrial revolution. In his writings he developed a rudimentary sociology of class together with a general concepts of historical coding which formed a joining between Saint-Simonism and Marxism."—George Lichtheim.