The motto of the Fourieristic, Societary or Phalansterian school is respect for individual liberty, based on the following notions:
All nature is good; it becomes perverted only when performing its functions in evil surroundings.
No person exactly resembling the rest, each one should be the sole judge of his capacities, and should receive laws only from himself.
Attractions are proportional to destinies.
If the disciples of my compatriot, Charles Fourier, do not express themselves exactly in this wise, all that have written bears the imprint of these thoughts.
Are Fourier and his disciples right in believing that the law of passional attraction alone is required to organize the industrial, moral and social world?
That the primordial element of a system of society should be the Societary or Phalansterian association?
That the most opposite, the most diverse passions are the conditions sine quâ non of harmony?
That the compensation of labor and of competition should be regulated according to Labor, Capital and Talent?
We are not called on to examine this here.