1. For ever action, an equal and opposite reaction.
That's not only true in physics, but its expression can be found in political philosophies, as well.
When the industrial revolution burst upon the scene, and, as it had just begun to raise standards of living, it also produced chaos, filth, danger and a degree of misery in local environs. In fact, so much dirt and detritus that there were folks who imagined a calmer, more pastoral existence...a certain communal harmony.
2. There was a widespread desire for a socialist utopia, where "can't we all just get along" was the motto and the aim: a childish notion in which every person want the same things and is willing to give and take.
It could be framed as "from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs."
And some still believe that to be a possibility....those for whom knowledge and experience never seem to serve as a prism through which to see the world.
3. Taking their cue from Jean Jacques Rousseau, they accepted the idea that primitives lived a much happier life- a simpler one- getting along with each other and kinship with nature, and that modern man has left those behind.
And, again....some simpletons still believe same.
In any case, many elites of the time, such as English poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey, were in the forefront of the movement, and planned to begin a socialist utopia in America...
" Pantisocracy(... meaning "equal or level government by/for all") was a Utopian scheme devised in 1794 by the poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey for an egalitarian community. It is a system of government where all rule equally. They originally intended to establish such a community on the banks of the Susquehanna River in the United States,..."
Pantisocracy - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
a. Reality reared its ugly head when Coleridge found that Southey had no intention of putting his personal wealth into the communal pot, and that the whole 'community' would only be 5-6 acres.
Kaufman, "No Turning Back," p.46-47
4. Some got a lot further with the dream:
"Robert Marcus Owen(/ˈoʊən/; 14 May 1771 – 17 November 1858) was a Welsh social reformer and one of the founders of utopian socialism and the cooperative movement. In 1824, Owen came to America to invest the bulk of his fortune in an experimental 1,000-member colony on the banks of Indiana's Wabash River, called New Harmony. New Harmony was to be a utopian, or ideal/perfect, society."
Robert Owen - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
a. Owen's view was pretty much the same as Liberalism, communism, and all the rest: Living together with nature, and sharing, would "remove all causes for contest between individuals" and "cleanse human society of evil." "Heavens on Earth : Utopian Communities in America 1680 - 1880," Mark Holloway, p. 80.
b. New Harmony, Indiana began in 1926....and fell apart by 1830.
That's not only true in physics, but its expression can be found in political philosophies, as well.
When the industrial revolution burst upon the scene, and, as it had just begun to raise standards of living, it also produced chaos, filth, danger and a degree of misery in local environs. In fact, so much dirt and detritus that there were folks who imagined a calmer, more pastoral existence...a certain communal harmony.
2. There was a widespread desire for a socialist utopia, where "can't we all just get along" was the motto and the aim: a childish notion in which every person want the same things and is willing to give and take.
It could be framed as "from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs."
And some still believe that to be a possibility....those for whom knowledge and experience never seem to serve as a prism through which to see the world.
3. Taking their cue from Jean Jacques Rousseau, they accepted the idea that primitives lived a much happier life- a simpler one- getting along with each other and kinship with nature, and that modern man has left those behind.
And, again....some simpletons still believe same.
In any case, many elites of the time, such as English poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey, were in the forefront of the movement, and planned to begin a socialist utopia in America...
" Pantisocracy(... meaning "equal or level government by/for all") was a Utopian scheme devised in 1794 by the poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey for an egalitarian community. It is a system of government where all rule equally. They originally intended to establish such a community on the banks of the Susquehanna River in the United States,..."
Pantisocracy - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
a. Reality reared its ugly head when Coleridge found that Southey had no intention of putting his personal wealth into the communal pot, and that the whole 'community' would only be 5-6 acres.
Kaufman, "No Turning Back," p.46-47
4. Some got a lot further with the dream:
"Robert Marcus Owen(/ˈoʊən/; 14 May 1771 – 17 November 1858) was a Welsh social reformer and one of the founders of utopian socialism and the cooperative movement. In 1824, Owen came to America to invest the bulk of his fortune in an experimental 1,000-member colony on the banks of Indiana's Wabash River, called New Harmony. New Harmony was to be a utopian, or ideal/perfect, society."
Robert Owen - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
a. Owen's view was pretty much the same as Liberalism, communism, and all the rest: Living together with nature, and sharing, would "remove all causes for contest between individuals" and "cleanse human society of evil." "Heavens on Earth : Utopian Communities in America 1680 - 1880," Mark Holloway, p. 80.
b. New Harmony, Indiana began in 1926....and fell apart by 1830.
