utopian socialism

noun

1. (sometimes initial capital letter),  an economic system based on the premise that if capital voluntarily surrendered its ownership of the means of production to the state or the workers, unemployment and poverty would be abolished.

utopian socialism

noun

1. (sometimes capitals) socialism established by the peaceful surrender of the means of production by capitalists moved by moral persuasion, example, etc: the form of socialism advocated by Robert Owen, Fichte, and others Compare scientific socialism

Word History and Origins

Origin of utopian socialism¹

First recorded in 1920–25

Example Sentences

Owen's followers would soon coin a new name for his vision: "utopian socialism."

From Fox News

In the cultural arena, Mr. Novak wrote frankly of “radical feminism, gay liberation, utopian socialism and geopolitical neutralism” and “the cheaply radical young graduates of . . . Catholic universities.”

From Washington Post

In fact, Marx and Engels were dismissive of nineteenth-century bourgeois “utopian socialism,” contrasting it with their own “scientific socialism.”

From The New Yorker

And what is the essence of this first form of utopian socialism?

From Project Gutenberg

Even more notable was Weitling, a tailor, who traveled all over Germany preaching a mixture of Christian communism and French utopian socialism.

From Project Gutenberg