Engels Utopia Essay

INSTRUCTIONS FOR ENGELS UTOPIA ESSAY

Utopias are envisioned societies where human beings live a best possible life.

Utopias are here distinguished from dystopias.

Dystopias are envisioned societies where the structuring of society is tragically

wrong, bringing human suffering, misery, and difficult to overcome barriers to a

decent life. The movie Hunger Games is an example of a Dystopia, with 2 variant

dystopias depicted. We will not be dealing with dystopias in this assignment.

INSTRUCTIONS

In this assignment you are to construct an Engels-Inspired Utopia.

Such a utopia will have 3 main characteristics:

1. A highly developed technologically driven global society

2. Completely devoid of capitalism

3. With minimal if any government

PREPARING FOR THE ASSIGNMENT

You begin by reading my Engels notes and the Engels reading.

Then you can begin considering elements in our current society that suggest the

ways that technology is making the need for capitalism obsolete. This should

give you a general sense of how to construct an Engels Utopia.

Next you should consider some currently important areas of society that you

might find most feasible to extrapolate as elements of this futuristic Utopia.

WRITING THE ASSIGNMENT

You must choose one of the possible areas below, writing a long paragraph (at

least half a page, single spaced) describing what that area might be like in an

Engels non-capitalist technologically driven future.

ART AND/OR ENTERTAINMENT

GOODS: DURABLE & PERISHABLE

TRANSPORTATION

FOOD SERVICES

MEDIUMS OF EXCHANGE

WELFARE: SAFETY/LAWS

COMMUNICATION