Circular Utopia(s): Alfred Wellm’s <i>Morisco</i> and the Socialist City

Identifying Characteristics of a National Socialist: Germany and Alfred Wittmann

Acknowledgements At this moment, I would like to thank my Honors Thesis Coordinator Dr. Stephen Fritz for his continuous support with my Honors Thesis. Throughout my undergraduate career, lectures given by Dr. Fritz have inspired me to engage in more research and to ask more questions. I would also like express gratitude to my Thesis Readers Dr. O'Brien and Dr. Achilov for taking their time to ...

city and socialist justice

justice demonstrates in behavior of any person with another person and in government behavior with the people of the society. social justice is a kind of justice that expresses this concept in society. selecting the slogan of justice from modernity1 by marxism caused the social justice be the main idea in the governance of communist cities. the idea that it is different concept based of marxist...

Envisioning Real Utopias

A BOOK on utopias by a Marxist sociologist seems promising, perhaps even courageous. In Envisioning Real Utopias, Erik Olin Wright seeks to counter widespread cynicism about radical social transformation. To do this he offers what he calls “real utopias,” which might appear a contradiction or oxymoron. For Wright, however, utopias are not fantasies, or not only fantasies. In the current period ...

Propaganda in Havana: The Politics of Public Space and Collective Memory in the Socialist City

Preface It felt like the last chance. Fidel Castro, because of his illness, was no longer the official head of state and it seemed as though Cuba was ready for transition. Four years had passed since my last visit to Havana, and I expected some change. After a lot of unnecessary anxiety and two passes over my destination in the circuitous route from Philadelphia to Cuba via Kingston, I was met ...

Scientific Utopias