The Reunion fiasco did not eliminate the influence of Fourierism in the French-American socialist movement. The case of New Orleans shows the role played in the First International by the neo-Fourierist socialists, with their leader Charles Caron, and their efforts to start new experiments in colonization. On the basis of such concrete examples, one may indeed question the relevance of the distinction between so-called e “scientific” and “utopian” socialisms.
Michel Cordillot, professeur émérite de civilisation américaine à l’Université Paris VIII, collabore au Maitron et a publié aux Editions de l’Atelier La Sociale en Amérique : dictionnaire biographique du mouvement social francophone aux Etats-Unis, 1848-1922. Il a été l’un des fondateurs des Cahiers Charles Fourier.
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