# Fourier — The Conquest of Bread character guide

> Fourier in The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0001-the-conquest-of-bread

## Who they are

A utopian socialist whose communal ideas are discussed.

## Relationships

### [Robert Owen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_conquest_of_bread_se/characters/robert_owen)

_friendship_

Fourier and Owen were both utopian socialists who corresponded and shared ideas about cooperative communities, though they differed on methods.

### [Proudhon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_conquest_of_bread_se/characters/proudhon)

_rivalry_

Fourier and Proudhon disagreed on property and social organization, with Proudhon criticizing Fourier's phalanx system.

### [Louis Blanc](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_conquest_of_bread_se/characters/louis_blanc)

_friendship_

Fourier and Louis Blanc shared socialist ideals, though Blanc favored state intervention while Fourier advocated communal phalanxes.

## In the story

### [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_conquest_of_bread_se/chapters/i)

Kropotkin distinguishes his anarchist communism from Fourier's communism and the Phalansteriens.

### [X: Agreeable Work](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_conquest_of_bread_se/chapters/x-agreeable-work)

Kropotkin references Fourier's dream of agreeable work, noting it was not a Utopia.

### [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_conquest_of_bread_se/chapters/i)

Kropotkin references Fourier's dream of material organization as not being a Utopia, citing modern examples.

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