{"product_id":"9781839767654","title":"Utopia","description":"Author: Luxemburg, Rosa\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781839767654\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Bloomsbury\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 02 Sep 2025\u003cbr\u003ePages: 384 Format: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUntil the Age of Enlightenment, utopia was a popular literary genre, but without concrete political effects. However, in the decades leading up to 1789, its status gradually changed from an entertaining thought experiment to a socialist project. Imagining the ideal city took on the task of articulating revolutionary transformation of society towards equality and social justice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eUtopia\u003c\/i\u003e, Stephanie Roza explores the nascent ideal of a community of property and labour, not yet called communism, and the thinkers who engaged with it in the lead-up to the French Revolution. These philosophers included  tienne-Gabriel Morelly, a fierce critic of private property and the mysterious author of the \u003ci\u003eCode de la Nature\u003c\/i\u003e; the Abbe de Mably, a radical republican and interlocutor of Rousseau; and Gracchus Babeuf, who, from the 1780s onwards, defended the natural right to subsistence and dreamed of a more fraternal world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTogether, they laid the foundations for modern socialist movements. In the crucible of the French Revolution,  real equality  became the goal of a handful of conspirators gathered around Babeuf, who had meanwhile become the  tribune of the people . The Conspiracy of Equals was considered by Marx to be  the first active communist party - the hopes and questions that ran through the group prefigured those of the militants of later periods, including today.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46655890686110,"sku":"UBD-9781839767654","price":79.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781839767654.jpg?v=1774836495","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781839767654","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}