[goldstategop]

Socialist Utopianism is that just that - a flight of fancy.

In reality, the Soviet Union was a repressive dystopia.

Which belied the beautiful ideals professed by the ruling ideology.

[Aliska]

We had experiments with utopian communities in the US during the 18th century. They didn't last except some morphed into something else and yet exist, such as the Amana colonies.

I was quite taken with the Walden books (the modern ones) and am glad that I didn't get caught up in it. I think the hippies communal movements and occupy today were based on communist ideals. When you said "beautiful ideals", I didn't understand what could be beautiful about any of it.

PGR88, I lived through the cold war, maybe my friends were shielded from it, but I was aware of most of what was going on. I had high hopes after the "fall" of communism, and did until I read a couple days ago about Putin.