"Admired by Marx and Engels, the Surrealists, the Situationists,...

"Admired by Marx and Engels, the Surrealists, the Situationists, Walter Benjamin and Roland Barthes, the great utopian socialist Charles Fourier (1772-1837) has been many things to many people: a proto-feminist, a Surrealist ancestor, a cantankerous cosmologist, a social critic and humorist and to this day one of France’s truest visionary thinkers. He was also, as this volume demonstrates, a maniacal taxonomist. In this zoological guidebook to cuckoldry and commerce, Fourier offers a caustic critique of the bankruptcy of marriage and the prostitution of the economy, and the hypocrisies of a civilization that over-regulates sexual congress while allowing the financial sector to screw over the public." via HERE

I really wanna get back on the Fourier crazy train with this little gem. He is too flawed to make my all time favorite weirdo list (his antisemitism is like a slap in the face after the high of reading his radical defense of women’s rights and tolerance for homosexuality) But this looks like it might be a nice collection of what he does best.