Utopian Socialism

More- Utopia (1516)

Bellamy- Looking Backward (1888)- Property held in equal credit for all. 

John Locke- "labour is source of all wealth" 

Links to Ricardo 

Saint Simon- 

Owen- New Lanark and New Harmony

Fourier- rejected of industrialisation 

New Lanark- alternative to capitalism 

New Haven- USA. 

Children all same school 

Shorter working hours 

A New View of Society (1813) 

Ricardo- 'Theory of labour value' (1817) 

Based on Locke 

'Moral economy'- optomistic view of human nature 

Co-operative 

They argued that private ownership of the means of production should be supplanted by co-operatives owned by associations of workers. Robert Owen’s Lanark community was predicated on ‘co-operative labour, and frequently, co-operative sales’, it was not to be a self subsistent commune but a co-operative trading endeavour. Co-operativism is a socio-economic doctrine designed to enable communities and groups to share in achieving their common wellbeing. This sharing consists of continual, daily work in a spirit of collaboration and solidarity. 

Marx- Theory of alienation 

Democratic- providing alternative to caoitalism 

Influenced Chartists- required Parliamentary support. 

Marx- not scientific 

Conservatives- critic view of human nature