Fourieristic
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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.
Example Sentences
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In this last particular, the tendency of the Fourieristic morality is quite Manichean.
From What is Property? by P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) Proudhon
In 1854 Victor Considérant, the French socialist, planted a Fourieristic phalanx in Texas, under the liberal patronage of J.B.A.
From Our Foreigners A Chronicle of Americans in the Making by Samuel Peter Orth
One thing is sure,—that my superstition and credulity reached their height at the very period of my life which my critics reproachfully assign as the date of my Fourieristic beliefs.
From What is Property? by P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) Proudhon
The very blossom of the experiment, by which it seeded the nation and perpetuated its species, was its periodical, The Harbinger, and this belonged entirely to the Fourieristic period of its career.
From History of American Socialisms by John Humphrey Noyes
I know very little about the tactics of Fourieristic-phalanxes, but believe a phalange is a community or association of about eighteen hundred persons, who were supposed or intended to practice the Fourieristic doctrines.
From Beulah by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans