The Phalanx

Anarchist Beginnings

Fourier’s response to the Gazette de France — II

July 24, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur
SECOND PART OF FOURIER’S REFUTATION OF THE GAZETTE OF FRANCE. [Part One] For some time past the secret influence of the philosophic Pandemonium had enjoined the discipline of general science in the press, concerning the science of “attractive industry,” but the indiscreet Gazette has disobeyed the word. It is proverbially noted for its gossiping propensity, and notwithstand the tactics of obscurism, one of its scribes, inspired with a new idea, has aimed a fatal blow of calumny against my principle, by charging them with insult to our Saviour, Jesus Christ. The cause of this attack was a speech made by […]
Utopian and Scientific

Fourier’s response to the “Gazette de France” (1835)

June 18, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur
The Phalanx, 1 no. 13 (June 29, 1844): 185-187; 1 no. 14 (July 13, 1844): 205-209 FOURIER‘S REPLY TO THE GAZETTE DE FRANCE, in which his doctrines were grossly misrepresented as being anti-christian. “Having been publicly calumniated in the columns of a daily newspaper, by some pseudo-Christians, who are evidently influenced by that false pride which they pretend to condemn, it is my duty to refute their sophistry, and show the inconsistency of those absurd critics and false prophets who publicly admit the want of that very discovery of practical truth, which they blindly calumniate in my theory. “‘Tant de […]