French social reformer who advocated that society be organized into self-sufficient communes he called phalanxes; Ceresco in Wisconsin and Brook Farm in Massachusetts (where Nathaniel Hawthorne was briefly a member) were the best known American examples.

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[Source: Encyclopedia Britannica Online at http://www.eb.com/]