Utopian+Socialism


 * Nick A., Aviva Izmailov, Patrick Gatta

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=Utopian Socialism=

"//Before the coming of industrial capitalism, the yearning for an egalitarian society could only be a yearning, without any concrete analysis of social reality. Utopian socialism does not refer, therefore, to the vision of a William Morris, who was a scientific socialist, but to largely pre-capitalist visions of a socialist future. Under this heading come the mediaeval communists together with the Anabaptist and other religiously-motivated sects.//"

Definition
 * A form of socialism in which people adhere to moral beliefs in order to create a Utopian sociey.
 * Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels referred to all socialist ideas as utopian.


 * Concepts**
 * Everyone in equal in society
 * People work when inclined to
 * Everyone get's products based on their needs


 * Differences From Scientific Socialism**
 * Scientific socialism was more violent in achieving goals
 * Scientific socialism believed that capitalism was a crisis that would cause many problems
 * Scientific socialism does not have complete equality, instead has "rule of the working class"
 * Utopian Socialism focused less on the methods in which to create an ideal society, and rather focused mostly on what the society would look like

1. Robert Owen **
 * Thinkers
 * Viewed human social behavior not as fixed or absolute, rather that human beings have the flexibility to organize themselves into any kind of society they wished
 * Believed that all religions were based on the human imagination which made them weak
 * Supported the putting-out system over the factory system
 * One of the first men to increase wages, refuse to hire children under 10, improve workers conditions, and provide food and shelter to workers

2. Charles Fourier
 * Rejected the industrial revolution altogether and the problems that arose with it.
 * ======Indirectly contributed to the socialist revolution by influencing the young Karl Marx and helped him devise his theory of alienation.======
 * ======He was in no way a realist, and Marx and Engle regarded him as both inefficient and unproductive======
 * ======Had ridiculous ideals for example "the seas would lose their salt and become oceans of lemonade"======
 * ======Supported women's rights======
 * ======Sought to re-engineer society in an effort to end human suffering and misery brought on by the industrial age======


 * Flaws**
 * Utopian socialists didn't have methods by which to achieve their goals
 * They wished to achieve power through peace, so they didn't get very far
 * The idea that people only work when inclined to is unrealistic