Hubert Bourgin

Hubert Bourgin (3 November 1874 in Nevers – 6 February 1955 in Crosne, Essonne) was a teacher, politician (initially socialist then far-right), and French writer.

From 1905 to 1923, the social curiosity of Hubert Bourgin manifested itself in numerous investigations: the slaughter activity at different ages – relations between employers, workers and the state; public assistance problem in England in Sidney and Beatrice Webb; changes in industrial development and market fluctuations; the steel industry in France at the beginning of the Revolution; study of socialist systems (Doin) of the eighteenth century and Gracchus Babeuf at the Amsterdam Congress in 1904, and from there to the forms of what Hubert Bourgin called the decomposition of socialism: revisionism, reformism, unpatriotic, anarchism, Bolshevism.

Mobilized August 6, 1914, he began the war as an instructor at Prytanée La Flèche, second lieutenant of infantry (Department forges); he became Head of Information to the Undersecretariat of State Artillery and ammunition.

He was a member of the editorial staff of the right-wing newspaper Le Nouveau siècle founded on 26 February 1925, along with Georges Valois, Jacques Arthuys and Philippe Barrès.

The general idea of his works is that with proletarian education at all levels, the bourgeois state is playing a dangerous game and is the architect of its own downfall.