fourierism means The cooperative socialistic system of Charles Fourier, a Frenchman, who recommended the reorganization of society into small communities, living in common. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
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FOURIERISM — [Noun] The cooperative socialistic system proposed by Charles Fourier, advocating the reorganization of society into small, self-sustaining communities. From French fouriérisme, named after French philosopher Charles Fourier (1772–1837), combined with the suffix -ism denoting a system or ideology. Unlike "communism" (which dissolves all hierarchies into a collective whole) or the vaguer "utopian socialism" (which dreams without blueprints), Fourierism is a meticulous fantasy of phalansteries—communal palaces where work is pleasure and passions are precisely balanced. It is the scent of bread baked in shared ovens, the sound of children raised by a village of chosen kin, the sight of orchards tended by those who love the act of tending—a world where efficiency and joy are not at odds, but entwined. A theory so humane it forgets the stubbornness of human nature.
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- The cooperative socialistic system of Charles Fourier, a Frenchman, who recommended the reorganization of society into small communities, living in common.“Millard’s sketch happened to look a lot like the master plan of Fourierism, one of the most popular secular utopian movements in American history. In the early 1800s, Charles Fourier, a Frenchman, proposed, in a series of jargon-filled writings, a self-sufficient community model called a “phalanx.””