Scăieni Phalanstery

[1] He presented his social and economic views in three articles that were published in June 1834 in Ion Heliade Rădulescu's Curierul Românesc magazine.

[2][3] In 1835, a year after Diamant returned to Wallachia, he established a phalanstery (an agricultural-industrial community based on Fourier's principles)[1] at the estate in Scăieni owned by boyar Emanoil Bălăceanu.

[5] The earliest members of the phalanstery were Roma people liberated from slavery by the boyar,[6] but the first recruits moved to Scăieni in January 1836.

[4] The produce of the commune was distributed according to the amount of work performed and the level of skill, assessed through vote by the members of the community and according to the quantity of capital contributed.

In 1958, his work, Scrieri economice (Economic Writings) was posthumously published at Editura Științifică[2] and in 1979 a movie called Falansterul, inspired from the Scăieni Phalanstery, was released.