{"id":5123,"date":"2017-09-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/2025\/06\/21\/fourier-aimez-le-travail-nous-dit-la-morale-cest-un-conseil-ironique-et-ridicule\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T09:16:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T07:16:44","slug":"fourier-aimez-le-travail-nous-dit-la-morale-cest-un-conseil-ironique-et-ridicule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/fourier-aimez-le-travail-nous-dit-la-morale-cest-un-conseil-ironique-et-ridicule\/","title":{"rendered":"Fourier : \u00ab Aimez le travail, nous dit la morale : c\u2019est un conseil ironique et ridicule\u00a0\u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p>Quatri\u00e8me jour de notre s\u00e9rie de citations historiques sur le travail. Au <span class=\"caps\">XIX<\/span>e si\u00e8cle, le socialisme naissant est qualifi\u00e9 d\u2019utopiste (par ses solutions plus qu\u2019originales), mais Saint-Simon (le comte) et Fourier voient d\u00e9j\u00e0 les vrais probl\u00e8mes des travailleurs. Louis-Napol\u00e9on Bonaparte lui aussi, invit\u00e9 surprise et t\u00e9moin (sans doute) de bonne foi.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation\"><span class=\"enonce\">\u00ab\u00a0Aimez le travail, nous dit la morale\u00a0: c\u2019est un conseil ironique et ridicule. Qu\u2019elle donne du travail \u00e0 ceux qui en demandent, et qu\u2019elle sache le rendre aimable.\u00a0\u00bb<span id=\"1903\" class=\"cit-num\">1903<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\">Charles <span class=\"caps\">FOURIER<\/span> (1772-1837), <em>Livret d\u2019annonce du nouveau monde industriel<\/em> (1829)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"ressi\">Ce philosophe et \u00e9conomiste, critique de l\u2019ordre social, ajoute que le travail \u00ab\u00a0est odieux en civilisation par l\u2019insuffisance du salaire, l\u2019inqui\u00e9tude d\u2019en manquer, l\u2019injustice des ma\u00eetres, la tristesse des ateliers, la longue dur\u00e9e et l\u2019uniformit\u00e9 des fonctions.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<p>Fourier trace les grandes lignes d\u2019une soci\u00e9t\u00e9 nouvelle, conforme \u00e0 ses v\u0153ux\u00a0: le phalanst\u00e8re en est la cellule, regroupant les travailleurs associ\u00e9s en une sorte de coop\u00e9rative. Il doit en r\u00e9sulter l\u2019harmonie universelle\u00a0: c\u2019est moins de l\u2019optimisme qu\u2019une utopie, qui fera des adeptes sous la Monarchie de Juillet, grande \u00e9poque du <a href=\"http:\/\/www.histoire-en-citations.fr\/indexation\/socialisme-socialistes\">socialisme<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"panneau\">Toutes les citations qui suivent <br>sont comment\u00e9es dans nos <a href=\"https:\/\/www.histoire-en-citations.fr\/boutique\">Chroniques.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0L\u2019homme a jusqu\u2019ici exploit\u00e9 l\u2019homme. Ma\u00eetres, esclaves\u00a0; patricien, pl\u00e9b\u00e9ien\u00a0; seigneurs, serfs\u00a0; propri\u00e9taires, fermiers\u00a0; oisifs et travailleurs.\u00a0\u00bb<span id=\"1902\" class=\"cit-num\">1902<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.histoire-en-citations.fr\/indexation\/saint-simon-duc-et-comte\">Comte de <span class=\"caps\">SAINT<\/span>\u2013<span class=\"caps\">SIMON<\/span><\/a>, <em>Doctrine de Saint-Simon\u00a0: Exposition. Premi\u00e8re ann\u00e9e<\/em> (1829)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>R\u00e9sum\u00e9 de l\u2019histoire du monde des origines \u00e0 nos jours\u2026 et du socialisme \u00e0 la fran\u00e7aise aux accents messianiques, vingt ans avant le marxisme. Saint-Simon \u00e9tant mort, les saint-simoniens cr\u00e9ent une sorte de mouvement socialiste\u00a0: une infime \u00e9lite, destin\u00e9e \u00e0 se diversifier et s\u2019\u00e9largir, \u00e0 Paris comme en province, dans l\u2019atmosph\u00e8re des lendemains r\u00e9volutionnaires de 1830.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"citation-small\">\u00ab\u00a0V\u00e9ritable Saturne du travail, l\u2019industrie d\u00e9vore ses enfants et ne vit que de leur mort.\u00a0\u00bb<span id=\"2251\" class=\"cit-num\">2251<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"auteur\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.histoire-en-citations.fr\/indexation\/napoleon-iii\">Louis-Napol\u00e9on <span class=\"caps\">BONAPARTE<\/span><\/a>, <em>L\u2019Extinction du paup\u00e9risme<\/em> (1844)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Utopie de ces trente pages \u00e9crites par le prisonnier au fort de Ham et d\u00e9sir d\u2019un futur souverain de se poser en \u00ab\u00a0homme social\u00a0\u00bb. Cela n\u2019exclut pas une certaine sinc\u00e9rit\u00e9. Fait unique pour l\u2019\u00e9poque de la part d\u2019un pr\u00e9tendant au pouvoir, il tient \u00e0 visiter les r\u00e9gions industrielles anglaises \u2013 exil\u00e9 pour tentative de coup d\u2019\u00c9tat contre la Monarchie de Juillet. Il a 25\u00a0ans et le spectacle de la mis\u00e8re le frappe.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<style>\r\n        a .cit-num {\r\n            text-decoration: none !important;\r\n            color: inherit !important;\r\n        }\r\n    <\/style>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quatri\u00e8me jour de notre s\u00e9rie de citations historiques sur le travail. Au XIXe si\u00e8cle, le socialisme naissant est qualifi\u00e9 d\u2019utopiste (par ses solutions plus qu\u2019originales), mais Saint-Simon (le comte) et Fourier voient d\u00e9j\u00e0 les vrais probl\u00e8mes des travailleurs. Louis-Napol\u00e9on Bonaparte lui aussi, invit\u00e9 surprise et t\u00e9moin (sans doute) de bonne foi. \u00ab\u00a0Aimez le travail, nous [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"iawp_total_views":13,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-citation-du-jour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5124,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5123\/revisions\/5124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/histoire-en-citations.fr\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}