Word: utopias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that Socialism is not entirely practical. Already the peasants have been granted practical ownership of their farms and produce, and now that its principles are to be abandoned in the factories as well, little remains but a few catchwords of Karl Marx and a rapidly fading shadow of that Utopia of idealists, the Perfect Socialistic State...
...possibly be attained. If the undergraduate is not willing to free himself to a greater extent from the exacting demands of outside activities and devote himself to "the problem of the inner life", cease to be the specialist and become more the man of leisure, Professor Babbitt's Utopia of Socratic standardization is plainly impossible. He advocates a "classic restraint" as the only solution to the hectic post-romantic ineffectuality of American civilization and appeals to academic circles to exercise their control in the defeat of the hydra-headed monsters of distracting niaterialism and ultimate inefficiency...
...useless cog, or even dangerous as a theoretical bigot. This was the blight, in the form of a superiority complex, to which Dr. Butler ascribes the death of interest in the classics. No doubt a society of the widely informed, not soporific with erudition, would be the cultural utopia. But as long as civilization goes ploughing ahead in the present direction, moles seem indispensable as ground breakers. There is no reason for salvaging persons who are perfectly, if esoterically, happy, and what is more, an excellent protection against snags...
...Thirdly, the Bolsheviki established for the first time in history a workers' government. They tried for a Communist Utopia and failed completely. I believe something much more important resulted,--the workers republic. In Russia today, as in no other country in the world, the workers are on top. The only citizens are laborers, the only wealth is work, and a new type of society has been organized that is going to possess the future. As the French Revolution brought political democracy, the Russian Revolution is bringing economic democracy. We owe to the Bolsheviki the creation of the first economic democracy...
Thus is another Utopia, soundly enough conceived, shattered by the test of reality, practice, human nature, what...