Many utopian communities were formed in the first half of the 1800s. What were their goals?

1 Answer
May 1, 2017

They wanted a society based on brotherhood.

Explanation:

Utopian communities emerged in the 1800 to contest the capitalist mode of priduction. Hawthorne gave a negative vision of those communities in his "Blithdale Romance".

People like cabet, Fourier stood for this kind of society, they inspired those communities. They rejected individualism and private property and put forward an alternative.