Western Civilization II / Unit 10 WC2 0915 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Utopian Socialism: Saint-Simon, Owen, Fourier
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The idea
Before eighteen forty-eight socialism was optimistic, expecting conversion: the Saint-Simonians, engineers harnessing industry for all; Owen's New Lanark, the witness's model mill with schools and pensions, and his short-lived communities; Fourier's phalanxes of exactly sixteen hundred twenty people, with gender equality and oceans of lemonade.
In practice
Utopian is Engels's later word, the anchor says.
Where people slip
Competition as a moral problem, not a threat.
Your place on the trail
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