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those of Paris, who, as workers in luxury trades, are strongly attached, without
knowing it, to the old ruhhish." Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Ausgewiihlte
Brief, ed. Adoratski (Moscow and Leningrad, 1934) . 21
[W10a,2]
When property has been abolished throughout Germany, these ultra-clever Berliners
will set up a Democratie Pacifique on the Hasenheide . ... Watch out! A new
Messiah will presently arise in the Uckermark-a Messiah who will tailor Fourier
to accord with Hegel, erect a phalanstery upon the eternal categories, and lay it
down as an eternal law of the self-developing idea that capital, talent, and lahor all
have a definite share in the product. This will he the New Testament of Hegelianism;
old Hegel will be the Old Testament; the '-state,' the law, will be a taskmaster
over Christ'; and the phalanstery, in which the privies are located in accordance
with logical necessity, will he the 'new Heaven' and the '-new Earth,' the new
Jerusalem descending from heaven decked out like a bride." Engels to Marx,
Barmen, November 19, 1844, in Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Briefwechsel,
vol. 1, 1844 .... .. . 1853, ed. Marx-Engels-Lenin Institut (Moscow and Leningrad, 1935),
p. 11. 22
[W10a,3]
Only in the summery middle of the nineteenth century, only under its sun, can
one conceive of Fourier's fantasy materialized. [W10a,4]
"Cultivate in children the sharp ears of a rhinoceros or a cossack." Ch. Fourier,
Le Nou.veau Monde industriel et societaire, au Invention du procede d'industrie
attrayante et naturelle distribltee en series passionnees (Paris, 1829), p. 207.
[WIOa,S]
One readily grasps the importance of the culinary in Fourier; happiness has its
recipes like any pudding. It is realized on the basis of a precise measuring out of
different ingredients. It is an effect. Landscape, for example, signifies nothing to
Fourier. He has no feeling for its romantic aspect; the miserable huts of the
peasantry arouse his indignation. But let "composite agriculture" move into the
area, let the little "hordes" and the little "bands "2;1 spread out across it, let the
noisy military marches of the industrial army play over its surface, and we have
arrived at that proportion of elements needed for happiness to result. [Wll,l]
The kinship between Fourier and Sade resides in the constmctive moment that is
proper to all sadism. Fourier conjoins the play of colors of the imagination in a
unique way with the play of numbers of his idiosyncrasy. It must be emphasized
that Fourier's harmonies are not dependent on any of the traditional number­
mysticisms, like that of Pythagoras or of Kepler. 1ney are altogether his concep­
tion, and they give to the harmony something inaccessible and protected: they
surround the hannoniens as though with barbed wire. The happiness of the
phalanstery is a bonheur barbele. On the other hand, I