Flight to Utopia

1947 Matthews, Carleton. Flight to Utopia. Trenton, NJ: Mount Eyre Pub. Co. 209 pp. MoK, MoU-St, NcD, PSt Both PSt copies have Newtown, Pennsylvania blacked out and Trenton, NJ added. 

Detailed eutopia presented as Applied Christianity. The first part includes the Incan empire as a eutopia. The second part is set in the U.S. in 1980 and describes the eutopia, “Utopia Incorporated,” that has evolved over twenty-five years, with the primary goal of reducing labor time and increasing leisure time. No money, and labor is the medium of exchange (94). Everything is done through “seven operating subsidiaries—Food Incorporated, Housing Incorporated, Clothing Incorporated, Communications Incorporated, Transportation Incorporated, Recreation Incorporated, and Culture Incorporated” (98). The only role for government is oversight.