Thursday, November 15, 2007

How to Create a Utopia

I read a while ago about a philosopher (don't know his/her name) that said that the way to create a governmental/economic system that results in a utopia is this (hypothetically):


A large group of people have to agree on a system of government and upon the agreement they will all drop dead and be reborn anywhere in the socio-politico-economical continuum. Meaning they could be anyone (randomly) in their new society. This would solve the problems of social and economic mobility and the problem of self-interest in those that form the government.

Of course you can't do that but I thought it was interesting and related to Marx because of his visions of Utopia.

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