Modern Socialism is, in its essence ... in the 16th and 17th centuries, Utopian pictures of ideal social conditions; in the 18th century, actual communistic theories (Morelly and Mably) [2].

From Babouvism to Bolshevik Marxism, the lineage is direct and sometimes openly acknowledged. Utopian socialism returns to the tradition of humanist rationalism that predates the French Revolution.

Actually, I also cited the Socialist Register for the year 2000 ... legacy of a certain kind of Marxist thinking which rejected utopian thought as “unscientific” just because it was utopian ...