Not at all. Socialists and utopians invariable forget that the inhabitants of their communities are populated with flawed human beings. There has never been an example of a socialist utopian community that lasted for longer than a year or two.

Thomas More was the chancellor to King Henry VIII and refused to declare him as the head of the Church in England when Henry split from the Catholic Church. For that he was imprisoned. When he further refused to take an oath of allegiance to the king he was tried for treason and executed.

I believe you mean Anti-Utopia, a menacing and totally (Negative) society as a fictional device. some of the novels on Atlantis are of this type, the move mis-titled (Captain Nemo and the Underwater City) fictional domain- called Temple Mir (Russian for Peace) might fit inthis category as he abducted people against their will and in effect was a(Slaver) Escape was out of the question as was contact with the surface world. many folks would find this techno-atlantis something of a Concentration Camp atmosphere. Some social commentary was in the film the dictator (Nemo) sought to regale his captives by showtimes such as (All-Seas Day) a sort of nautical Olympics, to keep the people down (and divcert attention formt he darker aspects of the Colony) IT couod have been handled better by setting the tale in, say Interwar Russia and having a sort of Soviet Von Braun as the head man!

It was published in 1516.

Dystopia :)

This is a very subjective question. Utopia for whom? For me? For you? Your utopia might, after all, be my hell.

Saint Thomas More (7 February 1478 - 6 July 1535), also known as Sir Thomas More, was an English lawyer, author, and statesman. During his lifetime he earned a reputation as a leading humanist scholar and occupied many public offices, including that of Lord Chancellor from 1529 to 1532. More coined the word "utopia", a name he gave to an ideal, imaginary island nation whose political system he described in a book published in 1516. He is chiefly remembered for his principled refusal to accept King Henry VIII's claim to be supreme head of the Church of England, a decision which ended his political career and led to his execution for treason.

Ulysses - novel - has 644 pages.

Many citizens were unwilling to give up their privately owned possessions

Well, there are many books with Utopian societies, but my two personal favorites are The Giver by Lois Lowry and Utopia by Sir Thomas More.

Utopia is an imagined perfect world. It gets its name from a novel of this name by Thomas More. He created the word from the Greek for not a place.... that is, it cannot exist.
A uthopia is a perfect world .
The word utopia is a noun. It is defined as an imaginary place where everything is ideal.

The Elites sure think so.

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That men and women had equal abilities.

New harmony out in the wilderness, brook farm in massachusetts, and Onieda community in new york(1848). the creators of these sought a perfect world, but what the really created were communist societies since everyone was equally contributing and being rewarded.

the idea of a utopia is to create a perfect society, yet people have different oppinions of what perfection is, so it depends on the utopia you want to create.

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more describes an ideal society, where men and woman live in peace and harmony.

Thomas More was one of the first men to come up with the idea of Communism. More wrote a book called Utopia which was about an imaginary island that had a very idealistic society. Thomas More also was a successful lawyer and was a member of Parliament. One of More's bests friends was King Henry VIII who had More beheaded for disapproving his divorce.

Many authorative figures have tried to create their own Utopia, through both force and peace. New Haven was a failed Utopia established in Indiana some years ago. More infamous Utopian supporters include Hitler, Karl Marx, and J. Stalin.

A utopian society is subject to the citizens state of mind. So a colony of pot smokers would have a utopia if pot was legal. People that liked to kill and eat other humans would be in a utopia if that was legal so laws in a utopian society would be very very subject from person to person therefore is not really possible with a large group of people.

The closest attempts at a modern day utopia were those such as Stalin and Mao's socialist attempts. However they backfired and turned into distopias due to their selfish impulses. Hitler himself wanted to form a Utopia through the ultimate race, the arian's.

Society will shift toward socialist ideals without the need for violent revolution (apex)