Utopian Communities of the United States

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This paper explains that the primary aim of communistic societies was to build model communities and not to revolt against society. The author points out that most of these communities developed as a reaction to the standards or changes, which occurred in the society. The paper relates that, whether it was religious persecution, political abuses or the rise of individualism, all these communities tried to restart anew with the principles they believed to be important. The author describes many U.S. utopian communities and concludes that all the communities had its own visions of an idealistic society.

From the Paper:

"The Icarians was a community founded by Etienne Cabbet, the forefather of French communism. They constituted one of the most important emigrations from France to the United States with around one thousand people moving. Cabbet was born on the eve of the French Revolution in 1788, a revolution which coined the terms "Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite". Cabbet already used the words in his book Voyage en Icarie in 1840. In the songs the Icarians would sing they were using these terms though the one of liberty would be replaced by the one of humanity."

Sample of Sources Used:

• CLAEYS Gregory, The Utopia Reader, New York University Press, November 1999
• FRIESEN Virginia, The Palgrave Companion to North American Utopias, Palgrave Macmillan, April 2004
• ROTHSTEIN Edward, MUSCHAMP Herbert, MARTY Martin, Visions of Utopia [New York Public Library Lectures in Humanities], London and New York: Oxford University Press, February 2003
• WEGNER Phillip E., Imaginary Communities: Utopia, the Nation, and the Spatial Histories of Modernity, University of California Press, June 2002

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