According to Louis Blanc who could encourage cooperatives?

Correct answer: Government

The direct answer is A: the government. Louis Blanc believed that workers’ cooperatives needed public support. In his view, the state could help establish or encourage workshops and cooperative organisations so that workers could work together instead of remaining dependent on private employers alone. Option A is correct because government assistance was central to Blanc’s proposal. Option B is wrong because support limited to a king’s family would serve a private royal group, not workers as a whole. Option C is wrong because a foreign army has no necessary role in organising a fair cooperative economy and is unrelated to Blanc’s idea. Option D is wrong because feudal landlords represented inherited privilege and dependence, whereas cooperatives were meant to offer workers a more equal and collective arrangement. The reasoning chain is: Blanc supported worker cooperation; new cooperatives might lack money and organisation; government could provide encouragement or assistance; therefore he connected cooperatives with state support. This does not mean that the government itself should own every activity in the same way, but it means public help was considered necessary. Memory cue: Louis Blanc—workers’ cooperatives—with government support.