Home / Figures / Charles Fourier
A French utopian socialist, Fourier linked social progress to the emancipation of women and criticized the patriarchal family, moral repression, and social hierarchies, imagining ideal cooperative communities.
Editorial coordinates · view sources & context ↓
Sources below support the specific identity or context claims indicated. They do not validate this profile’s twelve numerical coordinates, its closest matches, or every statement in its description.
A documented source review is still pending for this entry. Treat its description and coordinates as an atlas interpretation.
How to interpret catalog profilesPolitical Axes
These coordinates are editorial interpretations. The two pole scores add to 100; they describe a position in this model, rather than a probability. Read how catalog profiles are interpreted ↗
This position is 45.0 points from the median of the 449 figure profiles in this collection.
This is the largest distance from this collection’s median across the twelve axes. The collection is not a survey of public opinion.
This position is 3.9 points from this collection’s median.
This is the smallest median distance across the twelve axes; it does not establish a historical or political consensus.
Ideological Alignment
Scores below are similarity indices out of 100, calculated from catalog coordinates. They do not establish historical influence or endorsement. How the comparison works ↗
Most compatible among the 257 ideologies
Democratic Marxism inspired by Rosa Luxemburg, which unites revolution and freedom, values the spontaneity of the masses and the general strike, and criticizes both reformism and the authoritarian centralism of vanguard parties.
Left-libertarian branch that unites broad individual freedom with collective or shared ownership of resources, defending autonomy, cooperation, and the rejection of both the authoritarian state and capital.
An anti-Leninist Marxist current of Pannekoek, Gorter and Mattick, which holds that workers themselves should run production and power through workers' councils, rejecting the vanguard party, the state and parliamentarism.
Most distant ideology
National SocialismTerceira Posição36 / 100Scores below are similarity indices out of 100, calculated from catalog coordinates. They do not establish historical influence or endorsement. How the comparison works ↗
A French philosopher, Foucault analyzed prisons, sexuality, medicine, and modern knowledge as forms of disciplinary power, becoming a reference for critiques of social normalization, institutions of control, and cultural hierarchies.
Closest by facet
Each facet compares three axes: governance (power distribution, representation, civil liberties), culture (integration, religion, social norms), or economy (ownership, coordination, trade). Full-profile similarity compares all twelve.
Other compatible figures
Most distant figures
Scores below are similarity indices out of 100, calculated from catalog coordinates. They do not establish historical influence or endorsement. How the comparison works ↗
A constituent country of the United Kingdom, Scotland has its own parliament, a distinct national identity and language, a strong independence movement (2014 referendum), and social-democratic politics further left than England's.
Similar by dimension
Most different modern nations
The revolutionary government that held Paris for 72 days in 1871, the Commune established direct democracy with recallable mandates, workers' self-management of workshops, separation of Church and state, and equal pay, becoming a symbol of communal socialism.
Similar by dimension
Most different historical profiles