Throughout his career, Léon Walras had numerous opportunities, while presenting the facets of his own “liberal socialismSocialismliberal”, to refute the ideas of the socialists of his time. To refer to these authors, he uses the generic term “empirical socialismSocialismempirical”. What typology of currents will he apply in his writings? He always uses an evaluation scale from best to worst. Indeed, he begins with socialists who exhibit “a certain science and a certain critical strength” (“Exposition et conciliation des doctrines sociales”, 1872c, vol. XIII, p. 281), here referring to Saint-Simon[aut]Saint-Simon, Claude-Henri and his school, as well as Charles Fourier[aut]Fourier, Charles and his disciple Victor Considérant[aut]Considérant, Victor, the Fourierist school being, according to him, clearly inferior to the first (Cours d’économie sociale, vol. XII, p. 267).