French philosopher, an influential early socialist thinker, and one of the founders of utopian socialism Charles Fourier was born #OTD in 1772.
He developed a comprehensive system of societal organization known as Fourierism which influenced many writers and thinkers such as Dostoevsky, André Breton, Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse and many others. He is is credited with having originated the word feminism in 1837.
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![Lithograph, "Vue d’un phalanstère, village français [composé] d’apres la théorie sociétaire de Ch. Fourier", H. Fugère. Date uncertain, but from 19th century. 860.05, Houghton Library, Harvard University](https://friendica.hellquist.eu/photo/preview/640/2453625 "Lithograph, \"Vue d’un phalanstère, village français [composé] d’apres la théorie sociétaire de Ch. Fourier\", H. Fugère. Date uncertain, but from 19th century. 860.05, Houghton Library, Harvard University")
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