Utopianism

Utopianism is often a an excuse for doing evil as to gain utopia all is justifed.

Matthew Yglesias » Politics as a Vocation 2007

A Literary Study in Greek Utopianism (Ann Arbor, 1956).

UTOPIA ROGER L. EMERSON 1968

It's this kind of Utopianism "if only we could follow true purity this time then everything would be perfect" that this article argues against.

The Albatross Rogers 2007

"Utopianism" is often used as a pejorative, but our nation was built on — and flourished on — utopian dreams.

OpEdNews - Quicklink: America: Utopia Lost 2006

'Utopianism' is often used as a pejorative, but our nation was built on — and flourished on — utopian dreams.

OpEdNews - Quicklink: America: Utopia Lost 2006

Well, a kind of Utopianism, Utopian left-wing philosophy gives meaning in life.

Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline 1996

At the same time, he maintained a scornful attitude toward the "Utopianism" of the peasant Socialists, who had always made the same contention, because he believed they based their hopes and their policy upon a wrong conception of Socialism.

Bolshevism The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy John Spargo 1921

I think Utopianism has genocide lurking in its bowels; I think a lot of Utopians are saying, First we eradicate all the systems that are present.

Trying to Predict the Present: An Interview with Cory Doctorow « Gerry Canavan 2010

I think Utopianism has genocide lurking in its bowels; I think a lot of Utopians are saying, First we eradicate all the systems that are present.

April « 2010 « Gerry Canavan 2010

Undoubtedly, there are grounds for reform – Monbiot mentions the great philosopher Roger Scruton's stipend from Japan Tobacco – but it is a pity that his proposals for exposing the morally compromised are now likely to be dismissed by detractors along with his insistence on pay transparency, as an outbreak of classic Moonbat Utopianism.

Even if you show me yours, I'm not showing you mine | Catherine Bennett 2011