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