‘The Egg of Columbus’?How Fourier's social theory exerted a significant (and problematic) influence on the formation of Marx's anthropology and social critique

摘要: In scholarship on the history of philosophy, it is widely assumed that Charles Fourier was a utopian socialist who could not have exerted significant influence development Karl Marx's thought. Indeed, both Marx and Engels seem to advanced this view. contrast, I argue in 1844 when developing his anthropology social critique, he relied upon Fourier's thought supply key assumption. After establishing connection, explain why tacit reliance creates problematic undercurrent