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some careful and intelligent hand did not charge itself with the collection of all
these valueless relics, to reconstruct out of them a mass susceptible of being
reworked and made fit for consumption again. This important task evidendy
belongs anlOng the attributes of the miser . ... Here the character and mission of
the miser perceptibly rise: the pinch-penny becomes a ragpicker, a salvage operator
. ... The hog is the great salvager of namre; he fattens at nobody's expense:'
A. Toussenel, L'Esprit des betes (Paris, 1884), pp. 249-250." [W7a,4]
Marx characterizes the insufficiency of Fourier, who conceived " a particular form
of labor-Iahor leveled down, parceled, and therefore unfree-. .. as the source
of private property's perniciousness and of its existence in estrangement from
men," instead of denouncing lahor as such, as the essence of private property.
Karl Marx, De,. historische Materialismll.s, ed. Landshut and Mayer (Leipzig
< 1932» , vol. 1, p. 292 ("NationalOkonomie und Philosophie").l 6 [W7a,5]
Fourierist pedagogy, like the pedagogy of Jean Paul, should be studied in the
context of anthropological materialism. In this, the role of anthropological materialism
in France should be compared with its role in Germany. It might mm out
that there, in France, it was the human collective that stood at the center of
interests, while here, in Germany, it was the human individual. We must note, as
well, that anthropological materialism attained sharper definition in Germany
because its opposite, idealism, was more clearly delineated over there. The history
of anthropological materialism stretches, in Germany, from Jean Paul to
Keller (passing through Georg Buchner and Gutzkow) ; in France, dle socialist
utopias and the physiologies are its precipitate. [W8,1]
Madame de Cardoville, a grande dame in Le luif errant < The Wandering lew>, is
a Fourierist. [W8,2]
hl cOlmection with Fourierist pedagogy, one should perhaps investigate the dialectic
of the example: although the example as model (in the moralists' sense) is
pedagogically worthIess, if not disastrous, the gestic example can become the
object of a controllable and progressively assimilable imitation, one that possesses
the greatest significance. [W8,3]
"La Phalange, journal de la science sociale (1836-184,3), which appears three
times a week, . .. will fade from the scene only when it can cede its place to a daily,
La Democratie pacifique (1843-1851). Here, the main idea ... is 'the organization
of labor' through the association." Charles Benoist, " L'Homme de 184,8," part 2,
ReVILe des deux monde, (February 1, 1914), p. 645. [W8,4]
From Neuement's discussion of Fourier: "'In creating the present world, God reserved
the right to change its outward aspect through subsequent creations. These
creations are eighteen in number. Every creation is brought about by a conjunction
of austral fluid and boreal fluid." The later creations, following on the first,