News from Nowhere.(Review)

From: Reason | Date: December 1, 1999| Author: Walker, Jesse | Copyright information

Autopia is, by definition, a fantasy: The word literally means "no place," and the classical utopias existed only in the imagination. Sometimes, they were enchanting literature. Political scientists may sneer at the French socialist Charles Fourier, in whose utopia the planets copulate and the oceans turn to lemonade, but the surrealists loved him.

Their enthusiasm certainly makes more sense than that of those 19th-century Americans who actually tried to found Fourierist...

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