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Added a partial list of major utopias
The utopian project that mostly influenced dystopian literature was [[Marxism]], which, with its extremes and its further degeneration into Soviet Communism, convinced many intellectuals, such as Yevgeniy Zamyatin or George Orwell, that steps were to be taken to prevent the appearance of totalitarian regimes disguised as utopias.
The utopian project that mostly influenced dystopian literature was [[Marxism]], which, with its extremes and its further degeneration into Soviet Communism, convinced many intellectuals, such as Yevgeniy Zamyatin or George Orwell, that steps were to be taken to prevent the appearance of totalitarian regimes disguised as utopias.
== Partial list of the most important utopias, and of its most influential archetypes ==
[[Plato]]'s ''[[The Republic]]'' (''Πολιτεία'', c. 380 B.C.) - technically not an utopia, but an important archetype nonetheless.
[[Saint Augustine]]'s ''[[The City of God]]'' (''De Civitate Dei'', c. 426 A.D.) - a very important archetype of 16th century religious utopias.
[[Thomas More]]'s ''Utopia'' (1516)
[[Tommaso Campanella]]'s ''The City of the Sun'' (''La Città del Sole'', 1604)
Johannes Valentinus Andreae's ''Christianopolis'' (1619)
[[Francis Bacon]]'s ''[[The New Atlantis]]'' (1626)
James Harrington's ''The Commonwealth of Oceana'' (1656)
[[Edward Bellamy]]'s ''[Looking Backward]]'' (1888)
[[H.G. Wells]]'s ''A modern utopia'' (1905)