The Globe, Fri. Jan. 6, 1832: Socialist Newspaper

Le Globe, Journal de la religion Saint-simonienne (The Globe, Journal of the Saint-Simonian Religion). Year VIII, No. 6. (Fri. Jan. 6, 1832) Bureaux du Globe: Paris. Softcover folio, 4 pp.

 

From its founding in 1824, The Globe newspaper was the main voice of Liberal Romanticism, well through the 'Battle of Hernani' and the July Revolution. When the paper dissolved amidst political upheavals in the wake of the Revolution, its socialist editor Pierre Leroux approached the Saint-Simonist socialist collective to buy it, and it became one of Paris' first stridently socialist (not to mention feminist) daily newspapers. As such, its emphasis was not, like many other radical journals, on expounding the movement's theories directly, but rather commenting on current events, government policy, parliamentary politics, and other practical issues from a saint-simonian perspective.  

This issue contains articles on government funding of the arts, a transcription of current debates on the state budget in the Chamber of Deputies,  a reprint of Saint-Simon's own comments of 1821 on the subject, current events from Italy, England, and the German states, and a number of various short news items with socialist commentary on the events described.