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Techno-Pragmatism and Anarcho-Communalism

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Techno-Pragmatism  Saint-Simon created a political and economic ideology that claimed that the needs of an  industrial class , which he also referred to as the working class, needed to be recognized and fulfilled to have an effective society and an efficient economy. Saint-Simon's late-18th century conception of this class included all people engaged in productive work that contributed to society such as businesspeople, managers, scientists and bankers, amongst others. He advocated a form of technocratic socialism, an arrangement whereby industrial class of scientific merit based experts should advance society. Saint-Simon stressed the need for recognition of the merit of the individual and the need for hierarchy of merit in society and in the economy such as society having hierarchical merit-based organizations of managers and scientists to be the decision-makers in government. Saint-Simon strongly criticized any expansion of government intervention into the economy beyond ensurin