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A 5 page paper analyzing the ways in which Thomas More's idealized society, described in his book Utopia, could be said to be Communist. The paper concludes that the actual aims of Karl Marx and More were different; Marx was calling for a social revolution, and More was calling for a moral one. Bibliography lists three sources including book.
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File: D0_Utopiacomm.doc
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communist society is that all men should share equally in the distribution of the means of consumption. It is the goal of every social reformer -- and this is certainly
true of those who formulated the communist and socialist states of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries -- that their society should be structured in such a way as to bring
about the maximum amount of happiness for the greatest number of people. A carefully-developed plan for such a society can be traced back to Plato, but the name for this
kind of idealized society is the legacy of Thomas More and his book Utopia. The fact that Mores proposed society was designed to be classless is well-known. But in what
sense was it communist, in the sense that we understand the term today? This paper will look at this issue in light of nineteenth- and twentieth-century communist thought, and, in
view of the abandonment of the communist experiment in Eastern Europe, it will also assess how practical Mores idea would be in practice. To begin with, it should be
established that communism was given its name and its distinctive character in the 19th century, under the auspices of Karl Marx. Here communism, sometimes interchangeably called socialism, was developed as
a radical alternative to the industrial capitalism then flourishing throughout the more highly-developed countries of Europe. Thus Marxs communism was a specific response to a specific stimulus -- capitalism --
which did not exist in 1516 when More wrote his own book. Mores Utopia, on the other hand, was developed in response to a number of economic and social abuses
of his own day. Richard Marius notes that More makes so much of the sanitation and education systems of Utopia, for example, because the sanitation systems in Renaissance England stunk
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