Charles Fourier
French utopian socialist and philosopher (1772–1837)
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Early 19th-century French philosopher who sketched elaborate utopian communities and accidentally gave feminism its name in 1837. His radical ideas about labor and society have aged better than most.
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François Marie Charles Fourier was a French philosopher, an influential early socialist thinker, and one of the founders of utopian socialism. Some of his views, held to be radical in his lifetime, have become mainstream in modern society. For instance, Fourier is credited with having originated the word feminism in 1837.
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