Fourierist
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a word derived from
Fourierism.
Fourierismnounthe social system proposed by François Marie Charles Fourier, under which society was to be organized into phalanxes or associations, each large enough for all industrial and social requirements.
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In France, the Fourierist Considérant issued his remarkable manifesto, which contains, beautifully developed, all the theoretical considerations upon the growth of Capitalism, which are now described as "Scientific Socialism."
From The Conquest of Bread by Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin, Prince
We understand that Brook Farm has become a Fourierist establishment.
From History of American Socialisms by John Humphrey Noyes
To be a faithful Fourierist, in fact, one must abandon his reason and accept every thing from a master,—doctrine, interpretation, and application.
From What is Property? by P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) Proudhon
Better the most heaven-storming or sky-scraping audacity of individualism than any attempt to transform New York into a Fourierist phalanstery or a model prison.
From America To-day, Observations and Reflections by William Archer
Every new scheme of increasing happiness by force found a helper, a fighter, and a giver in him; by turns he had been an Abolitionist, a Fourierist, a Socialist, a Greenbacker, a Farmers' Alliance man.
From Stories of a Western Town by Octave Thanet