Looking back
Marx and Bellamy1
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3970826 |
|---|---|
| Authors | P Beilharz (0000-0001-8707-5758, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 597-604 |
| Publication date | 2004-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The European Legacy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1084-8770 • E-ISSN: 1470-1316 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1084877042000306361 |
| OpenAlex | W1985923254 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
No two images of socialism or utopia were more influential a century ago than those of Marx and Bellamy. Marx and Engels famously denied the utopian dimension of their own project; Bellamy celebrated it. In this essay I sketch out some clues for revisiting images of utopia in Marx and in Bellamy. My claim is that Marx failed to develop a systematic utopia or image of socialism. We are left with a series of hints towards five different images of utopia across the path of his life and work. Bellamy's image of utopia is more consistent, but contrary to common understanding, it reflects the unresolved tensions of nineteenth century American modernity expressed through the prism of New England small town radicalism. Bellamy's utopia is connected to the later image of the machine in the garden; contrary to William Morris's assertion, he was not an unmixed modern, and this is one quality at least that he shared with Marx, where the impress of romanticism remains profound
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Assertion · Communism · Epistemology · Modernity · Political science · Politics · Romanticism · Socialism · Utopia · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Law · Philosophy · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics · Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,11 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2014 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |