| There is a manifest rhetoric and repetition in the rules | | | | power. There is rule making, arbitration, and |
| that seem to be active in negating, not creating, | | | | enforcement; hence there is room for abuse and |
| freedoms in order to construct a social system. For | | | | inequality. Indeed, it is difficult to find an example of a |
| one to object to the lack of privacy would be a | | | | contemporary Communist society that has not |
| minor, reactionary, position. The more pertinent | | | | exploited its people to a terrible degree, with the |
| enquiry is into the complete absence of individuality | | | | ambiguous exception of Fidel Castro’s Cuba. |
| and subjectivity in Utopian society. | | | | Thomas More’s Utopia portrays a society |
| Hythloday asserts that the Utopians are free of | | | | with no tenable position or allowance for the human |
| Europe’s (and particularly London’s) | | | | as an individual, and for that individual to dissent. A |
| social and institutional failures. The Utopians are free | | | | Utopian citizen has, figuratively speaking, become |
| of many of these grievances and inconveniences, but | | | | commodified: they are part of the body politic, and |
| they are not free. To be free, and feel free, in | | | | Utopia owns and controls them as much as they own |
| Utopian society is to submit to the dominant ideology: | | | | and control Utopia. They have been effectively |
| to submit to the Syphogrants; Phylarchs; Princes; and | | | | reified and are, essentially, labour power. |
| the King. Since there is a hierarchy, there is a form of | | | | |