1771: Robert Owen is born in Newtown, Montgomeryshire, in North Wales. The capitalist and social reformer will gain influence as a proponent of the humane treatment of industrial workers, a critic ...

Marx and Engels adopted the term, “utopian socialism,” from other writers who used it to refer indiscriminately to the ideas of Henri Saint-Simon, Charles Fourier, and Robert Owen (and sometimes to ...

Then, in 1825, wealthy Welsh industrialist Robert Owen bought out the Harmonists and established New Harmony’s second utopian society. This one embraced progressive ideas and rejected religion ...

Restoring Utopia: Jane Blaffer Owen. By Yaël Ksander Posted March 16, 2009. ... Whereas George Rapp’s Harmony Society had had a religious basis, Robert Owen’s utopian experiment banished ...

Two hundred years later Blue Over Time: Robert Owen – A Survey, at the Heide Museum of Modern Art, celebrates a descendant no less utopian in his aspirations.For this Owen utopia is an aesthetic ...

Off the coast of Korea, a utopian new city is rising. New Songdo City, which is slated to be finished in 2015, is the most expensive private real estate venture in the world. The city is being ...

In the nearly-500 years since its publication, Thomas More’s Utopia has influenced everything from the thinking of Gandhi to the tech giants of Silicon Valley, writes Tom Hodgkinson.

It was with Robert Owen’s example in mind, among other things, that a French lawyer called Étienne Cabet wrote his utopian fantasy, ... Utopia Society Societies. Join our commenting forum.

Led by Robert Owen (1771–1858) and the utopian socialists, private property understood as the exclusive right of industrialists, was identified as the source of existing exploitation and inequality.

New Lanark is a small 18th- century village set in a sublime Scottish landscape where the philanthropist and Utopian idealist Robert Owen moulded a model industrial community in the early 19th century ...