The economical, political and sociological movement known as Utopian Socialism appeared during the first years of the nineteenth century. It was fuelled by the Industrial Revolution’s decrease in living standards. The poor were mostly affected by the consequences of specialisation. Industrialisation destroyed labourers’ traditional way of life. For most, life became monotonous and working conditions hard. The working class engaged in riots and rebellions throughout the first half of the nineteenth century. Following these social protests, labour organisations were created, making the upper class worried.
The movement rose in England as a protest against capitalism and private property. Emerging contemporary currents differ in some aspects …show more content…
However, people always tend to desire more. Karl Marx was very critic of these theories, giving them the name of Utopian. Marx’s approach to socialism is in a more scientific way. The difference between both tendencies is that Utopian socialism tend to think of the perfect world without taking too much into consideration how it would work.
Today, we live in a mostly neoliberal world. “Neoliberalism sees competition as the defining characteristic of human relations. It redefines citizens as consumers”, as described in The Guardian’s article by George Monbiot (2016). With a few exceptions, the dominant ideology is that of the free market. According to Giddens and Sutton (2017), the capitalist component of the economy promotes the constant revision of technology in order to expand production. Consumerism dominates our daily lives. As it happened during the Industrial Revolution, society is screaming for a change. The periods where new ideologies were born are characterised by a sense of tumult and of a cultural and financial dislocation, much like today, as Kapur explains (2016). We are reminded of the failure of utopias in the past centuries. These unsuccessful attempts are due to the hypocrisy in most socialists. Egoism, acquisitiveness, competition and all other human nature’s faults …show more content…
For example, as in the Third Reich or ISIS. Weather we like it or not there is a “tyranny in the womb of every utopia”, as Kapur quoted from Bertrand de Jouvenel. One thing is true, utopias are not considered as naive as they used to before. On the contrary, critics of this ideology, nowadays, are perceived as cynics, leaving the door opened for supporters of utopian socialism and similar ideologies that encourage social equity.
According to the “Economics: An Introduction to Traditional and Progressive View”, Gracchus Babeuf was the precursor of Revolutionary Communism. He believed that in order to achieve an egalitarian socialist state a revolt would be necessary to topple the existing government by force. Also, if the revolt were to be successful, a period of dictatorship would be necessary to establish the new
The movement rose in England as a protest against capitalism and private property. Emerging contemporary currents differ in some aspects …show more content…
However, people always tend to desire more. Karl Marx was very critic of these theories, giving them the name of Utopian. Marx’s approach to socialism is in a more scientific way. The difference between both tendencies is that Utopian socialism tend to think of the perfect world without taking too much into consideration how it would work.
Today, we live in a mostly neoliberal world. “Neoliberalism sees competition as the defining characteristic of human relations. It redefines citizens as consumers”, as described in The Guardian’s article by George Monbiot (2016). With a few exceptions, the dominant ideology is that of the free market. According to Giddens and Sutton (2017), the capitalist component of the economy promotes the constant revision of technology in order to expand production. Consumerism dominates our daily lives. As it happened during the Industrial Revolution, society is screaming for a change. The periods where new ideologies were born are characterised by a sense of tumult and of a cultural and financial dislocation, much like today, as Kapur explains (2016). We are reminded of the failure of utopias in the past centuries. These unsuccessful attempts are due to the hypocrisy in most socialists. Egoism, acquisitiveness, competition and all other human nature’s faults …show more content…
For example, as in the Third Reich or ISIS. Weather we like it or not there is a “tyranny in the womb of every utopia”, as Kapur quoted from Bertrand de Jouvenel. One thing is true, utopias are not considered as naive as they used to before. On the contrary, critics of this ideology, nowadays, are perceived as cynics, leaving the door opened for supporters of utopian socialism and similar ideologies that encourage social equity.
According to the “Economics: An Introduction to Traditional and Progressive View”, Gracchus Babeuf was the precursor of Revolutionary Communism. He believed that in order to achieve an egalitarian socialist state a revolt would be necessary to topple the existing government by force. Also, if the revolt were to be successful, a period of dictatorship would be necessary to establish the new