{"product_id":"utopia-4","title":"Utopia","description":"Until the Age of Enlightenment, utopia was a popular literary genre, but without concrete political effects. However, in the decades leading up to 1789, its status gradually changed from an entertaining thought experiment to a socialist project. Imagining the ideal city took on the task of articulating revolutionary transformation of society towards equality and social justice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eUtopia\u003c\/i\u003e, Stéphanie Roza explores the nascent ideal of a community of property and labour, not yet called communism, and the thinkers who engaged with it in the lead-up to the French Revolution. These philosophers included Étienne-Gabriel Morelly, a fierce critic of private property and the mysterious author of the \u003ci\u003eCode de la Nature\u003c\/i\u003e; the Abbé de Mably, a radical republican and interlocutor of Rousseau; and Gracchus Babeuf, who, from the 1780s onwards, defended the natural right to subsistence and dreamed of a more fraternal world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTogether, they laid the foundations for modern socialist movements. In the crucible of the French Revolution, 'real equality' became the goal of a handful of conspirators gathered around Babeuf, who had meanwhile become the 'tribune of the people'. The Conspiracy of Equals was considered by Marx to be 'the first active communist party': the hopes and questions that ran through the group prefigured those of the militants of later periods, including today.","brand":"Buchserien.de","offers":[{"title":"Neuware","offer_id":53985833156946,"sku":"9781839767654","price":50.6,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0615\/7002\/3593\/files\/unnamed_e081c6b4-0278-4529-8277-aa6eb4a5875e.jpg?v=1783891118","url":"https:\/\/www.buchserien.de\/products\/utopia-4","provider":"Buchserien.de","version":"1.0","type":"link"}