This year. Gerry Kelly reviews it for us From Plato's vision of a Slaver owning parddise to coan Russ's dream of world without men; from the sim pleasures enthe poor 14th • ballad valenbach 8 elaborate ecologically balanced Ecotopia' wonders of the many imWoreS •that human beings have thought themseives are detailed.
have been mere wishes, some have tried to put thel utopiar ideas into practice. Gerrard Winstanley's Digge living: It died, as all such axperiments have but it Provided lasting inspira examples followed. The Tavouron was the first occasion in history when the oppressed classes of power.
That revolutionary socie. ty aiso parisnea, but, on d larger scale "utopian ex ip to trans on Tallo. unan a sman cuater or it prompted workers over the world to take similar action.
all utopias have held out for humanity. George Orwell book had its forerunners in Aldous Huxley's Brave Now World and Evgeny Zamyatin's We.
Zamyatin his book 1920, three years after the victory of the Bolsheviks. He paints a pessimistic ITS OOOK ne returned picture . the future, ww humans tooled o the level of machines.
And there are reactionary utopias. two-best examples of this Henry Ford's tribution to a capitalist with his MOTO for the multitudes and The Blazing World of Margaret Duchess Newcastle tury at the defeat of the LOVESTS England's civil war.
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• Tie lails asleep in 1768 at the age of 28. When he wakes up it is the year 2440 and he is 700 years old. Louis XXVI. a philosopher king 'more desirous of the than the illusions of power easily na been demolished, Versailles Hes in ruins. Usterilalor Ras cone with OsOlUESTI me onivmak orelsuncion is an embroidered hat In real life, Mercier was expelled from Frar revolution broke out anc member of the National TrON animal liberatior through socialists to left organisation pressure isn't there, it probably doesn't exist.
And in case you stil wonder so have spent their ume creamine evere an troductory section called 'Britain Tories'. Need I say more?
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