What is Utopian:
As Utopian we call that belonging or relating to utopia. A Utopiaas such, is an ideal project, or practically impossible to carry out.
The word utopian is a adjective which derives from utopia, a word invented by Thomas More, from the Greek words οὐ (ou), which translates ‘not’, and τόπος (tópos), which means ‘place’: a place that does not exist. The term utopia originally referred to a perfect civilization devised by More.
See also Utopia.
In this sense, as utopian we designate something that is ideal, chimerical, fantastic, wonderful or fabulous. Hence utopian, for example, can be considered something very positivealthough difficult to put into practice: “The boys have proposed a utopian plan for recycling all the garbage we produce.”
However, utopian can also be synonymous of absurd, impossible or naivewhen referring to excessively idealistic matters, without any possibility of realization: “To think that world peace is possible is really something utopian.”
It opposite to utopianthat is, their antonymswould, for their part, be achievable, viable, possible, feasible or practicable.
Utopian and dystopian
It dystopian is what anti-utopian by excellence. In this sense, it is the opposite face of utopia. While it Utopian refers to ideal projects or systems, which dystopian refers to the disastrous consequences of utopian approaches, especially when they attempt, at all costs, to lead societies towards perfect systems, nullifying the individual and his freedoms, and finally leading to extreme control systems, characteristic of regimes. totalitarians. As such, dystopianism has always been related to literature, which has explored the topic in classic books such as 1984by George Orwell, or A happy worldby Aldous Huxley.
See also Dystopia.
Utopian socialism
As utopian socialism It was called the first socialism, made up of a set of doctrines aimed at social reform, which emerged in the 19th century as a response to the excesses of industrialism and capitalism in Europe. As such, this first socialism was called utopian, since later socialism considered its proposals to be naive, and lacked an effective plan for its application.
See also Socialism.