... salesman; and Robert Owen, a successful British industrialist. Owen's A New View of Society, proposed the creation of a new cooperative society where all property would be owned in common. Housing would be set up in a "parallelogram" formation, built around a central square, with common kitchens and recreational areas. Karl Marx and Engels dismissed his concepts as utopian, but these ... ideal communities were modeled after the only conceivable society that may be able to attain the material wealth of the Industrial Revolution, without paying the costs of injustice and inequality. Taxes...

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