Noun
A follower of Robert Owen, who tried to reorganize society on a socialistic basis, and established an industrial community on the Clyde, Scotland, and, later, a similar one in Indiana.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAlthough an early Owenite socialist, he eventually rejected its collective idea of property, and found in individualism a "universalism" that allowed for the development of the "original genius." Source: Internet
Scanned from Equitable Commerce by Josiah Warren (1846) The Owenite socialists in Britain and the United States in the 1830s were the first to attempt to organize barter exchanges. Source: Internet