CHARLES FOURIER — was a French philosopher and an influential early socialist thinker later associated with “utopian socialism”. Some of Fourier’s social and moral views, held to be radical in his lifetime, have become mainstream thinking in modern society. Fourier is, for instance, credited with having originated the word feminism in 1837. Fourier’s social views and proposals inspired a whole movement of intentional communities and a diverse array of revolutionary thinkers and writers.