The name of the new world we aim for
The newspaper of the Owenites, the biggest socialist trend in Britain in the early 19th century, was titled The New Moral World . The weekly journal of the German Social Democratic Party in its great days was called New Times ; Antonio Gramsci’s paper in Turin after World War One, The New Order , after a one-off special, The Future City . Karl Marx was sceptical of blueprints. “The working class... have no ready-made utopias to introduce by decree... They have no ideals to realise, but to set free the elements of the new society with which old collapsing bourgeois society itself is pregnant”...