Fourier: The Theory of the Four Movements Charles Fourier, Edited by Gareth Stedman Jones, Ian Patterson

This remarkable book, written soon after the French Revolution, has traditionally been considered one of the founding documents in the history of socialism. It introduces the best known and most extraordinary Utopia written in the past two centuries. Charles Fourier was among the first to formulate a right to a minimum standard of life. His radical approach involved a systematic critique of work, marriage and patriarchy, together with a parallel right to a "sexual minimum."
Contents
Introduction
Principal events in Fourier?s life
Brief note on further reading (in English)
Translator?s introduction
Theory of the four movements and of the general destinies
1808 Introduction
First part
Second part
Third part
Omitted chapter
Note A
Advice to the civilised
1818 Introduction.