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Fourierite

  • a word derived from Fourierism.
    Fourierism
    noun
    the 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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The Harbinger was established as the Fourierite organ in this country.

From My Friends at Brook Farm by John Van Der Zee Sears

Doherty, Hugh, writer for the Harbinger, 212; Swedenborgian Fourierite, 542.

From History of American Socialisms by John Humphrey Noyes

Having spent my first Sabbath at Waupun I next visited Ceresco, where a settlement had been made by the Wisconsin Phalanx, a Fourierite Association.

From Thirty Years in the Itinerancy by Wesson Gage Miller

Its first manifest, acknowledged and labelled fruits were a series of futile “communities”—Noyes’ History of American Socialisms gives their simple history of births and of fatal infantile ailments—Brook Farm, Fourierite “Phalanges” and the like.

From New Worlds For Old A Plain Account of Modern Socialism by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

The trouble with all the Fourierite communities was that they were fanciful and theoretical schemes, not simple and natural growths.

From British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals by J. Ellis Barker

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