* J.-C.-L. Simonde de Sismondi (1773–1842) was a Swiss economist and historian. Contemporary with the Utopian socialists, he also criticized certain of the contradictions of the developing capitalist society, but this was from the restricted standpoint of the petty bourgeoisie; Sismondi idealized petty commodity production. See Marx’s Postface to the Second German Edition of Capital Volume 1, p. 96.