Article
French
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10.4000/ress.4577>
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DOI: <
10.4000/ress.4577>
Abstract
This article highlights how the Socialist Republicans of 1840‑1850 justified the advent of the Republic. It describes the theoretical justification of the famous republican motto advocated by these “advanced” republicans, focusing on the centrality of the concept of “equality,” without which freedom cannot be effective. At the crossroads of socialism and republicanism, these men of 1848 outlined a theory of social republics and, from a programmatic point of view, proposed a new institutional framework aimed at achieving it. This alternative institutional framework challenged the liberalism of “neo-Smithian” economists who claimed to be in favor of realism against utopia.