Introduction Marx and Engels opened the manifesto by announcing that a spirit was about to descend on Europe — the spirit of communism. They stated that the capitalist system had already seen communism as a danger to its power. Marx and Engels claimed that communism could overthrow the existing...
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For much of the 20th century, in fact, about one-third of the world’s population lived under communist regimes. These regimes were characterized by the rule of a single party that tolerated no opposition and littledissent. In place of a capitalist economy, in which individuals compete for pr...
About 1494 his father brought More back to London to study thecommon law. In February 1496 he was admitted to Lincoln’s Inn, one of the four legal societies preparing for admission to the bar. In 1501 More became an “utter barrister,” a full member of the profession. Thanks to his ...
Ana García de la Torre (Ana García del Espinar), a more progressive contemporary, treated problems of class, gender, and the proletariat, writing especially on the “working girl” and portraying utopian workers’ socialist movements. Benito Pérez GaldósBenito Pérez Galdós, detail of an oil...
He enjoyed theintellectualatmosphere of the École Normale—the discussion ofmetaphysicaland political issues pursued with eagerness and animated by the utopian dreams of young men destined to be among the leaders of their country. Durkheim was respected by his peers and teachers, but he was impati...
He makes visits to utopian communities. One of them is populated by mermen and mermaids and located at the bottom of a lake in the Black Forest. The only controlling logic of the work is unpredictability. There is no development of character, no movement toward an ethical goal, only the ...
utopian “Kingdom of God” or a utopian society in some mythical land, this was the first work to postulate a utopian society on Earth in the realizable future. The book was swiftly banned by the Frenchancien régime, which recognized that Mercier’s fantasy about “the future” was a ...
the needs of the people. To Milton, revolution was the means of accomplishing freedom. Later, in the 18th century, the French,Haitian, and American revolutions were attempts to secure freedom from oppressive leadership. Modern revolutions have frequently incorporatedutopianideals as a basis for ...
prose being the derivative and younger rival. Both poetry and language are fashionably thought to have belonged toritualin early agricultural societies, and poetry in particular, it has been claimed, arose at first in the form ofmagicalspells recited to ensure a good harvest. Whatever the truth ...