Utopia and dystopia fiction

What are they?

The word utopia resembles the greek words 'no place', 'outopos', 'eutopos','good place'
In utopian fiction it is the creation of an ideal world
Dystopian fiction is the creation of a nightmare world
Many novels combine both often as a metaphor for the different directions humanity can take in its choices
It can be post apocalyptic, sci-fi or be integrated with other themes e.g. 1984-George Orwell, Animal Farm-George Orwell, The handmaids tale-Magaret Wood

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A totalitarian society comes up in dystopia a lot.
Where by there is a politcal system that recognizes no limits to its authority and strives to regulate every aspect of public and private life wherever feasible.
In utopia communism may be a relevant theme
Communism is a revolutionary socialist movement to create a classless, moneyless and stateless soical order structured upon common order.
Also there is utopian socialism where in a utopian world there is common ownership, democratic control by all social organization.
In dystopia there is most often dicatorship and democracy in utopia
In dystopia there can be capitalism where by there is an economic system based on private ownership of the means of production and the creation of goods.

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