Utopia is a Bad Idea

<ns0:p>Wight Martindale, Jr. says that John T. Farrell’s The Utopian Dilemma in the Western Political Imagination “is a brilliant, exhaustive, and challenging study” demonstrating that “political utopias are designed to short-circuit the foibles of human nature.”</ns0:p>

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Academic Questions
Published
2025-04-14
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https://doi.org/10.51845/38.1.23
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Political Economy and Marxism
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Utopia is a Bad Idea

Wight Martindale
Academic Questions
Political Economy and Marxism
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Utopia is a Bad Idea

Wight Martindale
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Abstract

<ns0:p>Wight Martindale, Jr. says that John T. Farrell’s The Utopian Dilemma in the Western Political Imagination “is a brilliant, exhaustive, and challenging study” demonstrating that “political utopias are designed to short-circuit the foibles of human nature.”</ns0:p>

Academic QuestionsVol. 38(2)
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