Fourierism

thumb|alt=|Perspective view of the urban area of Fourier's . Rural area is not shown in the drawing. thumb|North American Phalanx building in [[Monmouth County, New Jersey, inspired by Fourier's concept]]

thumb|right|200px|Fourierism is the set of ideas first put forward by French Utopian socialism|utopian socialist François Marie Charles Fourier (1772–1837). Fourierism () is the systematic set of economic, political, and social beliefs first espoused by French intellectual Charles Fourier (1772–1837). It is based on a belief in the inevitability of communal associations of people who work and live together as part of the human future. Fourier's supporters called his doctrines associationism. Political contemporaries and subsequent scholarship have identified Fourier's set of ideas as a form of