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François Marie Charles Fourier was a French philosopher, influential early socialist thinker and one of the founders of utopian socialism. Some of Fourier's social and moral views, held to be radical in his lifetime, have become mainstream thinking in modern society. For instance, Fourier is credited with having originated the word "feminism" in 1837.Fourier's social views and proposals inspired a whole movement of intentional communities. Among them in the United States were the community of Utopia, Ohio; La Reunion near present-day Dallas, Texas; Lake Zurich, Illinois; the North American Phalanx in Red Bank, New Jersey; Brook Farm in West Roxbury, Massachusetts; the Community Place and Sodus Bay Phalanx in New York State; Silkville, Kansas and several others. Fourier later inspired a diverse array of revolutionary thinkers and writers.



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✵ 7. April 1772 – 10. October 1837   •   Other names Francois Marie Charles Fourier
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Famous Charles Fourier Quotes

“It is certain that nature inclines us toward the amorous orgy, just as much as toward the gastronomic orgy, and that while both are blameworthy in the excess, they would become praiseworthy in an order in which they could be equilibrated.”

Charles Fourier

Charles Fourier: The Visionary and His World, J. Beecher (1986), p. 310
New Amorous World

“An empire derives no advantage from the caresses of two turtledoves who spend a year cooing to each other in public meetings.”

Charles Fourier

Charles Fourier: The Visionary and His World, J. Beecher (1986), p. 315
New Amorous World

“There was very little that prevented the vandalism of 1793 from suddenly producing a second revolution as marvelous as the first was horrible. The whole human race was approaching its release; the civilized, barbarian, and savage order would have disappeared forever if the Convention, which trampled down all prejudices, had not bowed down before the only one that had to be destroyed, the institution of marriage.”

Charles Fourier

Charles Fourier: The Visionary and His World, J. Beecher (1986), p. 304-5
New Amorous World

“Wisdom, virtue, morality, all these have fallen out of fashion: everybody worships at the shrine of commerce.”

Charles Fourier

The Theory of the Four Movements (1808), G. Jones, ed. (1966), p. 269

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