Utopianism

Green high-design utopianism is virulent at Make It Right, as at Global Green, and all the houses feature sophisticated systems to achieve net-zero energy use. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Since utopianism is now an acknowledged strategy for change, it is a bit surprising that neither Abbott nor Hill makes explicit reference to it, but the omission should remind us of the longstanding hostility toward utopianism that existed in sociology. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Its utopianism is not a sign of political irrelevance. ❋ Unknown (2001)

14Sargisson distinguishes inversion from the genuinely critical and creative rethinking evident in utopianism: “inversion of hierarchy is not ... sufficient to challenge the existence of hierarchy” (Utopian Bodies 130-31). close window ❋ Unknown (2008)

Dion’s myopic utopianism is so misguided that it’s difficult to imagine how one could even begin to think that a massive tax increase will create a positive “shift” in environmentalism. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But that difficulty of comprehension is not the same as being lost in utopianism. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Those who dispute the dictum are accused of utopianism, which is condemned as an intellectual and emotional error, not just a mistake but a danger. ❋ Mike Marqusee (2010)

The debate, in high flown academic language, concerns a critique by the man of the American political system, and the unthinking utopianism which is inherent in the enforced ideology of capitalism and its superiority to all other systems. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A senior editor at the conservative National Review and a former speech writer for Presidents Nixon and Reagan, Hart recently remarked that "when the free market becomes a kind of utopianism, it maximizes ordinary human imperfection, unleashing greed, short views, and the resulting barbarism." ❋ Unknown (2010)

I mean, Marxism is also a kind of utopianism like globalization, like fascism, like any other ism that justifies human suffering for that ultimate paradise. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Furthermore, the cynicism of the ideology view is in fact the fruits of a kind of utopianism about law, for it counters the bleak portrait of legal ideology manipulated on behalf of the powerful with an ideal society without ideology or law, where human beings 'relations to each other and to reality are transparent and conflict-free. ❋ Sypnowich, Christine (2001)

Both free market advocates and statists make that error b/c they’re rooted in utopianism. ❋ Unknown (2009)

These scientists refute the charges that they are guilty of "utopianism," "anti-humanism," ❋ Unknown (2009)

In social and political thought circles this can be nicely called "utopianism," but the habit of thought is called "reductionist." ❋ Unknown (2009)

It has long been apparent to an honest observer that "utopianism" of this kind is immensely and unforgivably destructive, just as it is obvious that the belief that one person or one nation has the "ultimate solution" constitutes murderous arrogance of the kind we properly associate with the greatest monsters in history. ❋ Unknown (2008)