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    Utopian Society and 'Perfect'

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    In five pages this paper examines the utopian society as viewed by socialists and anarchists such as Andrew Dobson, Barry Commoner, and Murray Bookchin. Six sources are cited in the bibliography.

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    However, on closer analysis, one can clearly state that the anarchists view point and logic is faulty, as is that of the socialist. Therefore, capitalism is not to blame for  the lack of peace on earth. At least, given that capitalism is going to exist, several anarchists and/or socialists have given their slant on how mankind or society in general  may manage a near state of utopian living in conjunction with the environment. Some of these writers, speakers, and philosophers include Murray Bookchin, Barry commoner, Andrew Dobson, and Robert Goodwin.  They each give their version of utopia and how a community, society or individual may achieve as close a version of utopia as is possible. Murray Bookchin was one of  the first pioneers in the area of what is now called social ecology. Most would agree that his greatest contribution to anarchist thinking was in to integrate traditional decentralist, nonhierarchical,  and populist traditions with ecology, from a left-libertarian philosophical and ethical standpoint(Solow 1988). What he proposes, so that utopia may be reached, is an understanding of the dominating nature of  mankind, which can them be counteracted by finding non-violent ways in which to resist. He very much supported the idea of unions and was in the forefront of many industrialized  unions which formed in the early 1950s-1960s. For example, Bookchin analyzed many ancient cities, Athens and Rome in particularly, for the historical  relation between land and city in order to show that the decline of these great metropolis were due to the inability of the citizens to be self sufficient historical relation  between land and city. Therefore, Bookchin believed that as a precursor toward political democracy was the economic democracy, which was came from self-reliance. It would seem, then, that his 

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