Word: utopianism
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...include local administration. This is essentially a business enterprise, and there is no reason why the form of government, which experience has found most efficient for business enterprises, the board of directors, should not serve equally well for cities. If one should say that this is impossible and Utopian, it may be pointed out that it has already been done. In Galveston, the government of the city was placed in the hands of a commission, and this body did remarkably well, in every part of the city government, in promoting working efficiency. One thing will hasten the universal application...
During the first half of the nineteenth century, socialism was Utopian, and therefore ineffective, but in the middle of the century Karl Marx gave it what was supposed to be a foundation in actual science. The formula of Marx is that all wealth is due to labor, and therefore all wealth is due to the laborers. His scheme was to have the product of an hour of labor exchange for the product of an hour's labor in any other employment...
...other in quick succession in France. They gave rise to three classes of people--the Royalists, who were zealously devoted to the doctrine of the divine right of kings; the Imperialists, who tried to open the public service to all men; and the Revolutionists, who struggled vainly for their Utopian ideal of liberty, equality, and fraternity...