''Projet de communauté philosophe'' (translated as ''Project for a Philosophical Community'') is a book written by the
French philosopher
Victor d'Hupay, published in 1777.
Review
This book can be seen as a cornerstone in the history of
communism
Communism () is a political sociology, sociopolitical, political philosophy, philosophical, and economic ideology, economic ideology within the history of socialism, socialist movement, whose goal is the creation of a communist society, a ...
, as it describes for the first time how "communists" (people living in a "
commune") should understand this philosophy.
In this work, the author advises to "share all economic and material products between inhabitants of the 'commune', so that all may benefit from everybody's work".
[Cassely, 2016 : ''Aix insolite et secrète'' JonGlez ]
references from the Bibliothèque nationale de France
Later, in a 1785 letter to friend
Restif de la Bretonne, d'Hupay would describe himself as a "communist" author.
[Grandjonc Jacques,1983: ''Quelques dates à propos des termes communiste et communisme'' In: Mots, n°7, Octobre 1983 ]
reference on the Persée library
The book was partly written in d'Hupay's own
bastide in
Meyreuil, near
Aix-en-Provence
Aix-en-Provence, or simply Aix, is a List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, city and Communes of France, commune in southern France, about north of Marseille. A former capital of Provence, it is the Subprefectures in France, s ...
, where he was determined to set his own commune and live by the communist philosophy, with neighbours and friends.
Additional information
There is currently only one known public copy of this original edition, which is kept at the Diderot Library in
Lyon
Lyon (Franco-Provençal: ''Liyon'') is a city in France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, Switzerland, north ...
.
References
External links
Other works by d'Hupay in the French National Library
{{Portal bar, France, Philosophy, Communism
Books about communism
18th-century French literature
Communist books