A Practicable Utopia

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TitleA Practicable Utopia
Year for Search1960
AuthorsMcKelvey, Donald
Pagination18 pp.
Date Published[196?]
PublisherStudents for a Democratic Society
Place PublishedNew York
KeywordsMale author, US author
Annotation

The essay describes, at a very general level, what the author thinks is needed to create a cooperative “practicable utopia.” A cooperative society “is much more conducive to the desired love relationship and individual development than is the competitive society” (8). Decentralized into “administratively and economically independent areas” but with interactions among them as desired or needed as well as individuals interacting (9). Replaces all motorized transportation by “up to twenty parallel moving roads, each one moving five miles per hour faster than the next” as well as smaller local moving roads (10). No religion. No private property. Obligation to be productive in exchange for material goods. 
Info Notes

The paper was written in the Spring of 1960 for a college course.
Holding Institutions

MiU
Author Note

The author was Assistant National Secretary of SDS from September 1962 to June 1964. 
Full Text

[196?] McKelvey, Donald. A Practicable Utopia. New York: Students for a Democratic Society. 18 pp. MiU

The essay describes, at a very general level, what the author thinks is needed to create a cooperative “practicable utopia.” A cooperative society “is much more conducive to the desired love relationship and individual development than is the competitive society” (8). Decentralized into “administratively and economically independent areas” but with interactions among them as desired or needed as well as individuals interacting (9). Replaces all motorized transportation by “up to twenty parallel moving roads, each one moving five miles per hour faster than the next” as well as smaller local moving roads (10). No religion. No private property. Obligation to be productive in exchange for material goods. The author was Assistant National Secretary of SDS from September 1962 to June 1964. The paper was written in the Spring of 1960 for a college course.