Charles Fourier 1772 – 1837

Francois Marie Charles Fourier was a French utopian socialist and an extraordinarily original critic of early industrial civilization. Working as a clerk and salesman, he composed a vast body of writing in which the existing social order, which he called Civilization, is denounced as the systematic repression of the human passions, and is replaced by the Phalanx, a community of about sixteen hundred people organized so that the natural variety of human characters can find harmonious expression. He was the first to use the word feminism in something like its modern sense, arguing that the degree of emancipation of women is the measure of social progress.