Fabien Magnin (1810,

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– 1884) was President of the Positivist Society. Magnin was a carpenter. He became a positivist in 1840, becoming the first proletarian convert.

Auguste Comte Isidore Auguste Marie François Xavier Comte (; ; 19 January 1798 – 5 September 1857) was a French philosopher, mathematician and writer who formulated the doctrine of positivism. He is often regarded as the first philosopher of science in the ...

, the founder of

positivism Positivism is a philosophical school that holds that all genuine knowledge is either true by definition or positivemeaning '' a posteriori'' facts derived by reason and logic from sensory experience.John J. Macionis, Linda M. Gerber, ''Soci ...

, appointed him to be President of the Positivist Society after his death. Magnin filled this role from 1857 to 1880, when he resigned. Magnin also spread workers positivism (le positivisme ouvrier). In 1863 he founded the Cercle des prolétaires positivistes which affiliated to the

First International The International Workingmen's Association (IWA; 1864–1876), often called the First International, was a political international which aimed at uniting a variety of different left-wing socialist, social democratic, communist, and anarchist ...

Works

* (1861)
Lettre sur la grève des ouvriers du bâtiment à Londres
' (Letter on the London builders' strike of 1859) Paris: Chez Dunod

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Magnin, Fabien 1810 births 1884 deaths French carpenters Positivists