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jimvahrenkamp:an.illustrated.journey
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Utopia: Sir Thomas More The perfect world exists in a state of oddity in this book, where gold is worthless, and the population lives on a rotation, half in the country, half in the city, half of the year. Sir Thomas More here offers the idea that man can come to reach a state at which all is at rest, and finally equal. This is believed to be the main inspiration for Carl Marx’s Communist Manifesto. While the reading is technically interesting I found it rather dry and hard to follow, or at least to stay interested in. Sure the thought of a perfect society is neat, but unless you like the dry reading, save Utopia for when you need to read something for a book report in Government 101. The Editor |
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