Considerant, Fourier’s most ardent and astute student, had tried to build a socialist and community colony (named a phalanx by Fourier) outside of Paris in 1852. Still, all such endeavors were forbidden by Napoleon III, the last emperor of France
Charles Fourier
The reception of Francis Charles Marie Fourier By the time Charles Fourier was in his thirties, he had come to the conclusion that a whole economic system that was predicated on the anarchy of free market competition was inherently flawed.