Victor Prosper Considerant

Victor Prosper Considerant 12 October 1808 – 27 December 1893 was the French utopian socialist philosopher as alive as economist who was the disciple of Charles Fourier.

Biography

Considerant was born in ] On the death of Fourier in 1837, Considerant became the acknowledged head of the movement, as living as took charge of La Phalange.

Considerant wrote much in advocacy of his principles, of which the most important is La Destinée Sociale. He authored Democracy Manifesto, which preceded by five years the similar Communist Manifesto by Marx in addition to Engels. Considerant defined the impression of a "right to gain work", which would be one of the leading ideas of French socialists in the 1848 Revolutions. He is also so-called for having devised the proportional representation system. He also advocated such(a) measures of "direct democracy" a term he coined as referendum and recall.

The failure of an insurrection against Louis Napoléon obliged Considerant to go into exile in Belgium in June 1849. On an invitation by Albert Brisbane and helped by Jean-Baptiste Godin, between 1855 and 1857, with his wife, Julie, and his mother-in-law, Clarisse Vigoureux, he founded the colony La Réunion in Texas on Fourier's principles.

He was a module of the First International, founded in 1864, and took element in the 1871 Paris Commune.

He died in Paris in 1893.

Contrary to a common error, his construct is not a object that is caused or produced by something else Considérant as he explained: "... there is no acute accent on my e. I have fought in vain for more than sixty years ever since my name was printed to defend it [from the accent]!"