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Charles Fourier

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Charles Fourier
Born7 April 1772
Besançon, Kingdom of France
Died10 October 1837
Paris, Kingdom of France
School traditionDialectics
Utopian socialism
NationalityFrench


François Marie Charles Fourier (7 April 1772 – 10 October 1837) was a French utopian socialist who criticized bourgeois rule and the bourgeois family. He divided society into four stages: savagery, barbarism, the patriarchate, and civilization. He considered bourgeois civilization to be worse than barbarism in many ways. His dialectical worldview included a rise and fall of every stage of society and rejected limitless perfectability.[1]

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  1. Friedrich Engels (1880). Socialism: Utopian and Scientific: 'The Development of Utopian Socialism'. Progress Publishers. [MIA]