Victor Prosper Considerant (1808–1893) was a French utopian Socialist and disciple of Fourier. A student of the École Polytechnique (1826 diploma), helped by Jean-Baptiste Godin, he founded the colony La Reunion in Texas on Fourier's principles. Considérant wrote much in advocacy of his principles, of which the most important is La Destinée Sociale. He is also the writer of a Democracy Manifesto, close to the Communist Manifesto released five years latter by Marx and Engels. Considérant defined the notion of a "right to (have a) work", which would be one of the main ideas of French socialists in the 1848 Revolutions. He is also known for having devised the proportional representation system. He was a member of the First International, founded in 1864, and took part in the 1871 Paris Commune.

Victor Considérant