Historical Utopias
The Oneida Commune and ‘Free Love’ (2021)
Throughout the 19th century, as a reaction to the expansive and socially degrading capitalist process of the Industrial Revolution, different “visionaries” emerged. From messianic or social revolutionary thoughts (utopian socialists) they promulgated the creation of fairer communities, normally outside the status quo and what the Victorian Puritan society considered appropriate for the correct social customs and moral rectitude of the time.
The Oneida Commune is a special case within the different utopian social experiences for its social functioning and for the defense of freedom of sexual encounters.
International Congress: Intentional Communities: Concrete Utopias in History.
Organized by the HISTOPÍA Group and the Transatlantic Network for the Study of Utopias.
La Corrala Cultural Center of Madrid,
October 25-27, 2021.
The sessions of the Congress were recorded on video and are available on the canal de YouTube RedUtopias
