Charles Fourier was a French social theorist who advocated a reconstruction of society based on communal associations of producers known as phalanges (phalanxes). His system came to be known as Fourierism. While working as a clerk in Lyon, Fourier wrote his …
François Marie Charles Fourier (/ ˈ f ʊr i eɪ,-i ər /; [1] French: [ʃaʁl fuʁje]; 7 April 1772 – 10 October 1837) was a French philosopher, an influential early socialist thinker, and one of the founders of utopian socialism. [2]