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the sun and the harmonized planets." Citation from Fourier, in Maurice Harmel,
" Charles Fourier," Portraits d'hie,; vol. 2, no. 36 (Paris, 1910), p. 184,.
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"Among all the contemporaries of Hegel, Charles Fourier was the only one who
saw through bourgeois relations as clearly as he himself did." G. Plekhanov, "'Zu
Hegels sechzigstem Toclestag," Die neue Zeit, 10, no. 1 (Stuttgart, 1892), p. 243.
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Fourier speaks "of the ascendancy of the principle of 'industrial passion' (fougue
industrielle), the universal enthusiasm that is ruled by the laws ... of the 'composite'
or the ' coincident. ' On a cursory inspection, it might appear as though we
had reached this stage today. Industrial passion is represented by the rage to
speculate and the impulse to accumulate capital; the passion coi'ncidente (drive
toward incorporation), by the consolidation of capital, its increasing concentration.
But even though the elements discovered by Fourier are present in this
relation, they are neither articulated nor regulated in the manner he envisioned
and anticipated." Charles Bonnier, "Das Fourier'sche Prinzip del' Anziehung,"
Die neue Zeit, 10, no. 2 (Stuttgart, 1892), p. 648. [W3,1]
"We can see from his works that Fourier expected his theory to be accomplished
beginning in the year of their publication. In his Prowgomenes, he designates . ..
1822 as the year when the establishment of the experimental colony of the Harmonian
association was to be prepared. This colony was supposed to be actually
founded and put into practice the following year, whereupon 1824 would necessarily
see its general imitation by the rest of the civilized world." Charles Bonnier,
"Das Fourier'sche Prinzip del' Anziehung," Die neue Zeit, 10, no. 2 (Stuttgart,
1892), p. 642. [W3,2]
Aftereffects: " In Zola's powerful novel Le Travail , the great utopian was
supposed to celebrate his resurrection . . . . Leconte de Lisle, later the famous
leader of the Parnassian school, was, in his Sturm-und-Drang period, a singer of
Fourierist socialism. A contributor to La Revue socialiste . .. [see the November
1901 issue] informs us that, at the invitation of the editors of La Democratie
pacifique, . . . the poet contributed first to this latter journal and then briefly to
La Phalange." H. Thurow, "Aus den Anfangen del' sozialistischen Belletristik,"
Die neue Zeit, 21, no. 2 (Stuttgart, 1903), p. 221. [W3,3]
"The political economists and politicians from whom the pre-1848 socialists had
learned were, in every case, opposed to strikes. They explained to the workers that
a strike, even though successful, would bring them no advantage, and that the
workers should put their money into cooperatives for production and consumption
rather than into plans for a strike." Proudhon "had . .. the ingenious idea of
inciting the workers to strike in order not to increase their wages but to lower
them . ... In this way, the worker obtains two or three times more as a consumer