Constant's activities reflect the socialist struggle to come to terms, both with the failure of 1848 and the tough repressions by the new government. He participated on the socialist "Revue philosophique et religieuse", founded by his old friend Fauvety, wherein he propagated his "Kabbalistic" ideas, for the first time in public, in 1855-1856 (notably using his civil name). The debates in the "Revue" do not only show the tensions between the old "Romantic Socialism" of the Saint-Simonians and Fourierists, they also demonstrate how natural it was for a socialist writer to discuss topics like magic, the Kabbalah, or the occult sciences in a socialist journal.