Marx was not a utopian. His whole scientific approach to socialism was in contrast to the utopian socialism of Fourier, Owen, et al.
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A counterview. He did have a vision of a solution and a better society, tho? He wasn't like the postmodernists who were generally aimless and committed to thinking there would always be knowledge constructed by powerful discourses?
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I think this objection is a bit like the objection to calling intersectional feminists 'radical' because 'Radical Feminism' is the name of a branch of it. I know Socialists divided into Utopian and Scientific but they still both worked for a goal they thought could be achieved.
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I don't think that having a vision for a better society is enough to make one a utopian. Sounds like a definition is in order.
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