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'''[[Utopia]]n [[Socialism]]''' was a [[philosophy]] which grew in popularity in [[England]] and [[France]] during the early 1800s.  It promoted the creation of self-sufficient communities in which the [[government]] owned the land and money and politics were open to anyone who wanted to participate.
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'''[[Utopia]]n [[Socialism]]''' was a [[philosophy]] which grew in popularity in [[England]] and [[France]] during the early 1800s.  It promoted the creation of self-sufficient communities in which the [[government]] owned the land and money and politics were open to anyone who wanted to participate. A major promoter of Utopian communities in Great Britain and the United States was the [[Welsh]] cloth manufacturer [[Robert Owen]]. The most famous of his communities, [[New Lanark]], in the valley of the [[River Clyde]] south of [[Glasgow]] in [[Scotland]], is a [[World Heritage Site]].
    
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