Word: utopianizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...California. All three had taken up residence in Greenwich Village with a small table, some wicker chairs, a few cots. Thus did Utopia move East. Three years ago Mr. Reed left his brokerage business in Denver and went to the Pacific Coast where last winter he founded the Utopian Society. His Utopia was virtually what Edward Bellamy had described.† but he went about gaining proselytes in a different way. A Blue Lodge Mason, he made his Utopian Society, Inc. a secret order, which, enlisting ''pilgrims." puts them through four cycles and turns them out ''hermits...
Naturally in the recent California campaign many Utopian "hermits" rallied readily to Upton Sinclair, no mean borrower from Edward Bellamy himself. Sinclair's defeat was not the only grief they suffered. Quarrels broke out within the order. Founder Reed and some of his lieutenants fell out. Month ago, Founder Reed appeared in the East, took out incorporation papers in New York for the Utopian Society of America (East...
...basic problem today is unemployment. Roosevelt, in office for more than a year and a half, has failed as yet to bring substantial relief to those out of work. Disregarding Utopian ideas of perpetual government support of the unemployed, it is safe to say that private corporations must take up the large number of men now idle. The government can't do it all forever. Under the capitalistic system companies refuse to hire men unless they see the possibility of making a profit. Yet to date, the administration has deprecated the profit motive as a guide to business activity...
Predecessor of Karl Marx and first expositor of the "volonte generale" his ideas have permeated all utopian theories of communistic society, his eloquence and apparent cogency have always carried a multitude with it, if only for a time. Inspired by the inherent goodness of all men and convinced of their possession of certain inalienable natural rights, a theory long since discarded by political thinkers, he postulated a theory of social contract, historically null and logically full of gaping flaws, but yet inspiring in its fervent trust and faith in the basic goodness of all mankind. A visionary and idealist...
...Profits of Religion) All this was most bewildering to that great mass of impressionable Midwestern settlers in Southern California.* Southern California is a bourgeois paradise. Few sections of the U. S. offer cheaper food and housing. It is the perfect setting for Utopia. And EPIC is nothing if not Utopian. In spite of the revelations about Mr. Sinclair's past beliefs, therefore, political observers last week were ready to concede him Los Angeles and the Southern part of the State, look to hard-headed San Francisco and the conservative north for Merriam strength. "Poor Relation." Prime epithet used against...