Charles Fourier Archive
“Equality of rights is another chimera, praiseworthy when considered in the abstract and ridiculous from the standpoint of the means employed to introduce it in civilisation. The first right of men is the right to work and the right to a minimum [income]. This is precisely what has gone unrecognised in all the constitutions. Their primary concern is with favoured individuals who are not in need of work.”
Most of Fourier’s mansucripts were published only after his death and the date on which they were written is unknown. His first book was the 400-page Théorie des Quatre Mouvements, published in 1808, and Fourier sent copies to members of the nobility and bankers. The 1400-page Traité de l’association domestique-agricole was published in 1822, later republished as Théorie de l’unité universelle. Le Nouveau Monde Industriel et Sociétaire was published in 1829, and each of these published works were only fractions of the manuscripts from which they were taken.
WORKS
The Passions of the Human Soul, Vol. 1, 1851
The Passions of the Human Soul, Vol. 2, 1851
The Social Destiny of Man, or Theory of the Four Movements, 1857
SELECTED WRITINGS
Selections from the Works of Fourier, 1901
"On Trade"
"On the Hierarchy of Bankruptcy"
"Of the Role of the Passions"
"Of Education"
"Universal Harmony"
"Letter to the High Judge"
"Indices and Methods which led to the Discovery"
"Commerce"
"My lack of talent for Commerce"
"The Rise of Commerce and the Birth of Political Economy"
"Fashion and Parasitism"
"Critique of Economic Liberalism"
"On ‘Free Exchange’"
"On Economic Liberalism"
"The Vices of Commerce"
"A Sentimental Bankruptcy"
"Accusation of the Uncertain Sciences"
"Critique of the Revolutionary Ideals"
"Politics and Poverty"
"The Study of Groups"
"The Passionate Series"
"The Establishment of a Trial Phalanx"
"The Phalanstery"
"An Architectural Innovation: The Street-Gallery"
"The Phalanx at Dawn"
"Administrative Institutions and Practices"
"The Exchange"
"The Phalanx on Parade: Its Sixteen Tribes"
"Attractive Labour"
"The Phalanstery"
SEE ALSO
Commentary By Engels, 1845
Karl Grün on Fourierism, Engels, 1845
The Life of Charles Fourier, Charles Pellarin, 1848
Engels on Fourier, 1880
Owen, Saint Simon & Fourier, Wm Morris and Belfort Bax, 1886
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