EXCERPT: "THE SIMULACRUM OF UTOPIAN DECAY" (A.GLASS 2020)
"...Yet, in the decades that followed Saint-Simon and his theories, as the mid to late 1800s
heralded a continued discourse throughout Europe, between the wealthy and working
class, despite the hope and idealism of the French Revolution in all its relevancy of
maintaining a society ruled by meritocracy and individual endeavors. It is therefore
important in this study, that Karl Marx socialism and later Communism did not detract from
the structural framework, in a prelude to its more revolutionary thoughts, of what the
Utopian Socialist promoted – a term coined later by Marx in describing his French
influences, yet he later became a vehement critic of the earlier French Utopians – as an
unworkable political theory. Communism failed spectacularly in the last century and so did
the very notion of revolutionary ideas, which have been reduced to a novelty in our present
day, despite the history of European and American revolutions. However, the Saint-
Simonianism, that once was pushed aside by the later more defiant socialist, is by its initial
design being recopied today. As discussed in the earlier part of this series, the Simulacrum
of the Utopian beliefs is a recent phenomenon of the last three decades that has also
integrated the 1950s values of pragmatic consumers..."
heralded a continued discourse throughout Europe, between the wealthy and working
class, despite the hope and idealism of the French Revolution in all its relevancy of
maintaining a society ruled by meritocracy and individual endeavors. It is therefore
important in this study, that Karl Marx socialism and later Communism did not detract from
the structural framework, in a prelude to its more revolutionary thoughts, of what the
Utopian Socialist promoted – a term coined later by Marx in describing his French
influences, yet he later became a vehement critic of the earlier French Utopians – as an
unworkable political theory. Communism failed spectacularly in the last century and so did
the very notion of revolutionary ideas, which have been reduced to a novelty in our present
day, despite the history of European and American revolutions. However, the Saint-
Simonianism, that once was pushed aside by the later more defiant socialist, is by its initial
design being recopied today. As discussed in the earlier part of this series, the Simulacrum
of the Utopian beliefs is a recent phenomenon of the last three decades that has also
integrated the 1950s values of pragmatic consumers..."
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