Relating to or characteristic of Fourierism or its principles of creating harmonious self-contained communities based on human passions and cooperative labor.
Derived from Fourierist plus the suffix -ic, meaning of or relating to. This adjectival form allowed writers to describe ideas, movements, or communities inspired by Fourier's philosophy.
The word represents one of history's most optimistic attempts to redesign society from scratch, built on the surprising idea that if you just arranged people right and let them pursue their passions, everything would work harmoniously—which seems quaint now but shows how much faith 19th-century reformers had in human nature.
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