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A Fourier Society community. Wisconsin Phalanx [5] Wisconsin Albert Brisbane [6] 1844 1850 A Fourier Society community. [5] Clermont Phalanx: Ohio: Followers of Charles Fourier 1844 1845 A Fourier Society community. Prairie Home Community Ohio John O. Wattles [2] Valentine Nicholson [2] 1844 1845 A Society for Universal Inquiry and Reform ...
A piece of this destroyed moon became the Earth, which was then populated by a community of surviving, morally righteous black people, some of whom settled in the city of Mecca. [1] Yakub was born a short distance outside the city, and was among the third of original black people who were discontented with life in this society. [2]
Owenism is the utopian socialist philosophy of 19th-century social reformer Robert Owen and his followers and successors, who are known as Owenites. Owenism aimed for radical reform of society and is considered a forerunner of the cooperative movement. [1]
The opposite of a utopia is a dystopia. Utopian and dystopian fiction has become a popular literary category. Despite being common parlance for something imaginary, utopianism inspired and was inspired by some reality-based fields and concepts such as architecture, file sharing, social networks, universal basic income, communes, open borders and even pirate bases.
In 1963 Edd Winfield Parks published Nashoba, described as "a novel about Fanny Wright's gallant utopian experiment to emancipate the slaves". [8] The Twin Oaks Community, founded in 1967, is an intentional community of 100 members in Virginia. All the buildings are named after former communities, and one residence has been named for Nashoba.
They argued that Owen's plan, to create a model socialist utopia to coexist with contemporary society and prove its superiority over time, was insufficient to create a new society. In their view, Owen's "socialism" was utopian, since to Owen and the other utopian socialists "socialism is the expression of absolute truth, reason and justice, and ...
Among those are: The Oneida Community: An Autobiography, 1851–1876 [56] and The Oneida Community: The Breakup, 1876–1881, [57] both by Constance Noyes Robertson; Desire and Duty at Oneida: Tirzah Miller's Intimate Memoir and Special Love/Special Sex: An Oneida Community Diary, both by Robert S. Fogarty; Without Sin by Spencer Klaw; Oneida ...
Ripley and two associates created a new constitution for Brook Farm in 1844, beginning the experiment's attempts to follow Fourier's Phalanx system. [30] Many Brook Farmers supported the transition; at a dinner in honor of Fourier's birthday, one member of the group proposed a toast to "Fourier, the second coming of Christ". [ 31 ]