utopian socialismn.
/juːˌtəʊpɪən ˈsəʊʃəlɪz(ə)m/, /jᵿˌtəʊpɪən ˈsəʊʃəlɪz(ə)m/, /juːˌtəʊpɪən ˈsəʊʃl̩ɪz(ə)m/, /jᵿˌtəʊpɪən ˈsəʊʃl̩ɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /juˌtoʊpiən ˈsoʊʃəˌlɪzəm/ A form of socialism that advocates a society planned according to a vision of social perfection, typically founded on egalitarian principles (cf. utopian adj. 2d); spec. (in Marxist theory) one perceived as unrealistic or reactionary because it is based on ethical aspiration rather than empirical and historical analysis of economic and political factors (opposed to scientific socialism n.).Frequently with reference to the theories of early 19th-cent. social reformers such as Henri de Saint-Simon, Charles Fourier, and Robert Owen.
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Saint-Simonism1830
democratic socialism1848
social democracy1848
scientific socialism1849
utopian socialism1849
state socialism1851
societarianism1852
internationalism1871
state capitalism?1886
nationalism1889
Liberal-Labourism1905
champagne socialism1906
maximalism1909
guild-socialism1912
Popular Frontism1938
Saint-Simonianism1974
society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > socialism > [noun] > non-Marxist or Leninist communism > involving socialistic communities
Owenism1825
Fourierism1841
phalansterianism1841
utopian socialism1849
phalansterism1868
Icarianism1883
1849 Illustr. London News 24 Mar. 186/2 The delusions of utopian socialism and tyrannical red-republicanism.
1899 M. E. Tanner tr. A. Menger Right to Whole Produce of Labour ix. 110 A critical analysis of existing economic conditions in their historical connection,..is the true method of scientific, as distinguished from Utopian [Ger. utopistischen] Socialism (as of Saint-Simon, Fourier, and others).
1920 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 28 641 This conservative wing of the farmer party..holds aloof from the utopian socialism of the maximalists.
1968 Times 17 Dec. 9/6 The actual essay is a naive exercise in pre-Marxian utopian socialism (e.g., in the absence of private property ‘theft, bribery, brigandage will disappear of themselves’).
1987 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 23 Apr. 13 They [sc. members of kibbutzim] preach a brand of utopian socialism far removed from the everyday workplace of Israel's crowded urban centres.
2002 G. Eley Forging Democracy i. 28 Utopian socialism contained no critique of capitalist economics, focusing rather around religious and philosophical issues.
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