# Robert Owen — The Conquest of Bread character guide

> Robert Owen in The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Owen

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

## Who they are

A utopian socialist whose cooperative ideas are examined.

## Relationships

### [Fourier](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_conquest_of_bread_se/characters/fourier)

_friendship_

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

### [The Socialists](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_conquest_of_bread_se/characters/the_socialists)

_friendship_

Owen was a pioneering socialist whose cooperative experiments influenced later socialist movements.

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

_rivalry_

Proudhon rejected Owen's cooperative communitarianism, advocating instead for mutualist anarchism and individual property rights.

## In the story

### [The Need for Luxury](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_conquest_of_bread_se/chapters/ix-the-need-for-luxury)

Implicitly referenced as a founder of new societies in American deserts that failed to understand individual artistic needs.

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

Referenced implicitly through the example of communist associations in America.

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

Mentioned as an early English socialist who advocated for labor-cheques as a way to reconcile Capital and Labour without revolutionary expropriation.

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