Note 641 — Chapter V · : PROUDHON AND THE SOCIALISM OF 1848
R. (Robert) Richards translation
It is true that Fourier was not a communist. Proudhon shows that on the one hand his Phalanstère would abolish interest, while it would give a special remuneration to talent on the other, simply because “talent is a product of society rather than a gift of nature.” (Propriété, 1er Mémoire, p. 156.)