During his lifetime, Sacher-Masoch was well-known as a man of letters, a utopian thinker who espoused socialist and humanist ideals in his fiction and non-fiction.

Although he has been compared to the Jacobin Maximilien de Robespierre ( 1758 – 1794 ), Francia's policies and ideals perhaps most closely resembled those of François-Noël Babeuf ( 1760 – 1797 ), the French utopian who wanted to abolish private property and communalize land as a prelude to founding a " republic of equals ".

Paine outlined " a new vision — a utopian image of an egalitarian republican society " and his language reflected these ideals.

Despite the ideals of the corporation, the town has transitioned from utopian experiment to artist's and intellectual's colony to boutique resort and affluent suburb of Mobile.

Owen's utopian community would create a " superior social, intellectual and physical environment " based on his ideals of social reform.

Those who came were Forty-Eighters, intellectual liberal abolitionists who enjoyed conversing in Latin and who believed in utopian ideals that guaranteed basic human rights to all.

Sharing the free-love ideals of the earlier social movements — as well as their feminism, pacifism, and simple communal life — were the utopian socialist communities of early-19th-century France and Britain, associated with writers and thinkers such as Henri de Saint-Simon and Charles Fourier in France, Robert Owen in England, and, perhaps most far-reachingly, the German composer Richard Wagner.

The disparities between Jefferson's philosophy and practice have been noted by numerous historians: Staaloff proposed that it was due to his being a proto-Romantic ; John Quincy Adams claimed that it was a manifestation of pure hypocrisy, or ' pliability of principle ;' and Bailyn asserts it simply represented a contradiction with Jefferson, that he was “ simultaneously a radical utopian idealist and a hardheaded, adroit, at times cunning politician .” However, Jenkinson argued that Jefferson's personal failings ought not to influence present day thinkers to disregard Jeffersonian ideals.

Raymond Unwin an influential civil servant from this time injected some of the late Victorian / utopian / Fabian philosophy of garden suburbs and ideals from the cheap cottages movement launched in 1905.

On the Left Bank, on the rue du Vieux-Colombier, he rented the old and dilapidated Athénée-Saint-Germain, an unlikely venue for the utopian ideals of Copeau, but its location at distance from the commercial theatre district gave a signal that he intended to pursue a new path.

The early settlers had utopian socialist ideals, sharing provisions and going back-to-the-land.

Although it deals with extreme cosmetic surgery, the utopian ideals, or distopian ideals, depending on how you look at it, in the book are similar to those present in the above mentioned books.

The utopian ideals promoted by Harris had significant influence among his Japanese followers.

He was a popular faith healer and started the church and the Zion community with utopian ideals.

In 1825, the family left Philadelphia and traveled to New Harmony, Indiana, a utopian community on the Ohio River led by Robert Owen and sought to follow communitarian ideals.

All his stories bear witness to the conflict between his career and his ideals, as formed by the turn of the century utopian socialism.

He syncretized Abolitionism, Free Love, spiritual universalism, ( Josiah ) Warren, & ( Charles ) Fourier into a grand utopian scheme he called the Universal Pantarchy ... He was instrumental in founding several “ intentional communities ,” including the “ Brownstone Utopia ” on 14th St. in New York, & “ Modern Times ” in Brentwood, Long Island.

Apart from the founding of a national theatre, they envisaged a summer school and music festival based on utopian principles.

Beyond the purely literary sphere, Bellamy's descriptions of utopian urban planning had a practical influence on Ebenezer Howard's founding of the garden city movement in England, and on the design of the Bradbury Building in Los Angeles.

Theodore Herzl, the founding father of Zionism, himself spoke and wrote German and in his utopian book Altneuland actually depicted the future Jewish state as German-speaking.

Apart from the founding of a national theatre, they envisaged a summer school and music festival based on utopian principles.

She even contributed heavily to the founding of two utopian communities: Starnthwaite and Hadleigh in the 1880s.

Edward Bellamy ( March 26, 1850 – May 22, 1898 ) was an American author and socialist, most famous for his utopian novel, Looking Backward, a Rip Van Winkle-like tale set in the distant future of the year 2000.

* In the timeline of Robert Heinlein's utopian novel For Us, the Living – written in 1939 but only published posthumously in 2003 – LaGuardia is elected President in 1951 and serves two terms as a militant reforming president, effectively nationalizing the banking system and instituting a system of Social Credit.

His best-known works include The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems ( 1858 ), The Earthly Paradise ( 1868 – 1870 ), A Dream of John Ball ( 1888 ), the utopian News from Nowhere ( 1890 ), and the fantasy romance The Well at the World's End ( 1896 ).

The Pledge of Allegiance was written in 1892 by Francis Bellamy ( 1855 – 1931 ), who was a Baptist minister, a Christian socialist, and the cousin of socialist utopian novelist Edward Bellamy ( 1850 – 1898 ).

* Charles Fourier ( 1772 – 1837 ), utopian socialist

The vine-leaf bowers and the profusion of plants – any and all but the forbidden myrtle – transform the sophisticated, urban banqueting hall into a " primitive " dwelling, evoking the innocence of an ancestral golden age in which women rule themselves, without reference to men or Venus, drinking " milk and honey ", which are " markers par excellence of utopian golden times " – under the divine authority of Bona Dea.

* Amos Bronson Alcott ( 1799 – 1888 ), father of Louisa May Alcott, born in Wolcott, teacher, writer, and founder of the utopian community " Fruitlands "

* Alexander Woollcott ( 1887 – 1943 ), wit, writer and critic born at the nearby North American Phalanx utopian community.

* Mordecai Noah – an American playwright, diplomat, journalist, and utopian ; he tried to found a Jewish homeland at Grand Island

* Andrey Semyenovich Lebezyatnikov ( Андрей Семёнович Лебезятников ) – Luzhin's utopian socialist and feminist roommate who witnesses his attempt to frame Sonya and subsequently exposes him

* Charles Fourier ( 1772 – 1837 ), French utopian socialist thinker

Sir Ebenezer Howard ( 29 January 1850 – May 1, 1928 ) is known for his publication Garden Cities of To-morrow ( 1898 ), the description of a utopian city in which people live harmoniously together with nature.

In 2006, Agus Suwage, an Indonesian artist, installed his Pinkswing Park exhibit at Jakarta's international biennale and was surrounded by massive panels with multiple pictures of a near-naked man and woman frolicking in a utopian park – a world away from thoughts of religious furore, public condemnation and possible imprisonment.

Gudykunst and Kim ( 2003 ) make it a point to postulate a utopian or ideal type person they confusingly call an " intercultural person " or a " universal person " with " transcultural identity " ( pp. 383 – 384 ).

Nikolay Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky () ( July 12, 1828 – October 17, 1889 ) was a Russian revolutionary democrat, materialist philosopher, critic, and socialist ( seen by some as a utopian socialist ).

Robert Owen ( 14 May 1771 – 17 November 1858 ) was a Welsh social reformer and one of the founders of utopian socialism and the

François Marie Charles Fourier ( 7 April 1772 – 10 October 1837 ) was a French utopian socialist and philosopher.

Agriculturalism ( 農家 / 农家 ; Nongjia ) was an early agrarian social and political philosophy in ancient China that advocated peasant utopian communalism and egalitarianism.

Agriculturalism was an early agrarian social and political philosophy that advocated peasant utopian communalism and egalitarianism.

According to Norberto Bobbio, one of the major exponents of this distinction, the Left believes in attempting to eradicate social inequality, while the Right regards most social inequality as the result of ineradicable natural inequalities, and sees attempts to enforce social equality as utopian or authoritarian.

Particularly in the early 19th century, several utopian ideas arose, often in response to their belief that social disruption was created and caused by the development of commercialism and capitalism.

A common solution to gender oppression or social ills in feminist utopian fiction is to remove men, either showing isolated all-female societies as in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland, or societies where men have died out or been replaced, as in Joanna Russ's A Few Things I Know About Whileaway, where " the poisonous binary gender " has died off.

" For the historian of the anarchist movement Ronald Creagh, the hippie movement could be considered as the last spectacular resurgence of utopian socialism For Creagh, a characteristic of this is the desire for the transformation of society not through political revolution, or through reformist action pushed forward by the state, but through the creation of a counter-society of a socialist character in the midst of the current system, which will be made up of ideal communities of a more or less libertarian social form.

During his college days ( 1969-1973 ) he became disillusioned with the New Left of the 1970s and undertook extensive readings in anarchism, utopian socialism, council communism, and other left tendencies critical of both Marxism-Leninism and social democracy.

She asserts that in " actually documented primitive societies " of recent ( historical ) times, paternity is never ignored and that the sacred status of goddesses does not automatically increase female social status, and believes that this affirms that utopian matriarchy is simply an inversion of antifeminism.

" Kovalevskaya participated in social movements and shared ideas of utopian socialism.

Robert Owen, a Welsh-born industrialist and social reformer, purchased the town in 1825 with the intention of creating a new utopian community and renamed it New Harmony.

Some among the group linked it with utopian social change ; Brownson connected it with early socialism, while others considered it an exclusively individualist and idealist project.

Commitment and social organization: A study of commitment mechanisms in utopian communities.

Howard read widely, including Edward Bellamy's 1888 utopian novel, Looking Backward, and Henry George's economic treatise, Progress and Poverty, and thought much about social issues.

The first Western texts on revolutionary social theory available in Japan were mostly on anarchism, but Nosaka also enjoyed Edward Bellamy's utopian novel, Looking Backward.

When religion is related to reform movements of the period, such as abolition, women's rights, and utopian social experiments, the region expands to include areas of central New York that were important to these movements.

A number of utopian social movements throughout history have shared a vision of free love.

The utopian Skaneateles Community in 1843 acquired and successfully operated a large farm and developed small industries, but ultimately failed because of internal difficulties, as well as external concern about its unorthodox social practices.

Agriculturalism ( 農家 / 农家 ; Nongjia ) was an early agrarian social and political philosophy that advocated peasant utopian communalism and egalitarianism.

Karl Popper's criticisms of utopian social pursuits in The Open Society and Its Enemies are markedly similar to Đilas ' views, which were nonetheless developed independently ( see note 6 to Chapter 18 of The Open Society and Its Enemies and related text ).