“For Dostoevsky, Fourier is one of the industrious ant-hill engineers, busy, protected by the delusion that his goal, the will-ordered society, is the summation of all his desires.”

—  John Carroll

Source: Break-Out from the Crystal Palace (1974), p. 152

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