Excerpt: "THE SIMULACRUM OF UTOPIAN DECAY" (A.Glass 2020)



 "...with the productive class of scientists, intellectuals, bankers, businessmen to which they would be equally seen as the industrial class – the workers. A shared and symbioti relationship between the two societal classes without the struggle. There lies an interesting aspect of Utopian socialism, particularly being aware of the two class structures to work as a whole under the Saint-Simonianism Utopian mainframe – which Saint-Simon, as an engineer, later devised an idea that a society should be interlinked via canals. A trade and communication hub. But of course with all theories of political thought there needs to be a dissension, even with the egalitarianism of Saint-Simonism. Saint-Simon’s bane was another class that he called the Idle class – which he considered parasitic, that he believed could possibly unhinge the Utopian dream..."

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