Fourierism

Fourier believed that "all Western philosophy was rubbish because it ran counter to human nature by trying to make us into something other than who we naturally are." :2351He wrote that "'Happiness was the point of life...not virtue, or goodness, or truth. In pursuit of virtue, we too often repress the natural instincts, which then reappear perversely as malevolence. Far better...to work with, rather than against, the instincts, and to organize communities in such a way that the individual desires serve the general good.' :2351""'Unlike today, the power of the banks and the ideology of commercialism did not seem completely inevitable. In the 1840s it did not seem too late to turn the ship around, to replace inequality and individualism with fairness and cooperation. The utopia of solidarity still seemed a real possibility...' 2369"

Associationism
After Albert Brisbane published his front page article on Fourierism, Fourierist groups, who, in America, called themselves Associationists, spread as far west as Iowa. :2351