The Need for Utopia [PDF]
(First Draft December 2017)
A Contribution to the Future of Critical Theory
Dedicated to Herbert Marcuse
by
William Leiss
©William Leiss 2017. All Rights Reserved. (wleiss@uottawa.ca / www.leiss.ca )
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION…………………………………………………. 1 THEUTOPIANVISIONINTHEMODERNWEST……………. 3
SOCIALISM, ANARCHISM, COMMUNISM……………………. 7
THE END OF UTOPIA?………………………………………… 10 TRANSITION……………………………………………………… 12 EMPOWERMENTOFWOMEN………………………………… 18
WHAT IS EMPOWERMENT? 19
RELEVANT SOCIAL INDICATORS 20
MARY BEARD’S MANIFESTO 21
WHAT DIFFERENCE MAY IT MAKE?…………………………….. 22
MALE VIOLENCE 24
REPRODUCTION 26
TWO SCENARIOS………………………………………………….. 29 ROUTES…………………………………………………………… 32 CONCLUSIONS……………………………………………………. 33