Utopian socialism, criticism of C. Marx and F. Engels: His validity in the XXI century.

Abstract

We start recalling the period in which Thomas More came to play high  functions as Chancellor of the Kingdom at the time of Henry VIII, when England faced conflicts created by the shift from an agrarian to an  industrial economy. His book Utopia, written in 1516 is a work based  on the critique of a society affected by various  problems, still  present today. Here, we  discuss  how in the nineteenth century Robert Owen of  Wales, inspired by the thought of Moro, seeks the formation of  cooperatives, reason while he is considered the father of the  cooperative movement. Then, we remember the French philosophers whom  moved by what they believe as the necessity  for a social change,  shape Utopian socialism. From there, we analyze the criticism of Marx and Engels to these  models of social organization, which aside  the experiments "Villas  Cooperation", "Harmonías" and "New Lanark" made in England and the  United States, has not ever come taking shape in the political arena,  in the form of organic party.