Charles Fourier

François Marie Charles Fourier ;French: ; 7 April 1772 – 10 October 1837 was the French philosopher, an influential early socialist thinker and one of the founders of utopian socialism. Some of Fourier's social in addition to moral views, held to be radical in his lifetime, draw become mainstream thinking in advanced society. For instance, Fourier is credited with having originated the word feminism in 1837.

Fourier's social views and proposals inspired a whole movement of Familistery of Guise]. Fourier later inspired a diverse configuration of revolutionary thinkers and writers.

In popular culture

In the movie Metropolitan, one of the main characters, Tom Townsend, mentions "I favor the socialist service example developed by the 19th-century French social critic Charles Fourier".