Isn socialism simply a Utopian fantasy?
This is another criticism often made of socialists. Further, in my guestbook section, the aforementioned critic [Shawn] accused me of living in a “fantasy world” for supporting socialism. Capitalist supporters who take a sadistic glee out of having privileges over others often state that socialists live in such a fantasy world. My section on Pretenders to Socialism explains the many differences between socialism and utopianism. Socialists, including myself, are well aware that socialism doesn’t currently exist, and are forced to participate in the capitalist rat race the same as everyone else, both capitalist supporters and non. However, unlike the former, we believe the cutthroat competition of capitalism to be immoral and beneath the dignity of the human race. During Karl Marx’s time, he predicted many things about the economic world which were “fantasy” at the time, including the globalization of capital and the eventual creation of the subdivision of the working class he called the
