Introduction

The People's Manifesto is an attempt to extract the best known political and economic policies presented in British history. We seek to create the perfect system and an Egalitarian/Utopian society for the 21st Century.

Utopian ideals often place emphasis on egalitarian principles of equality in economics, government and justice, though by no means exclusively, with the method and structure of proposed implementation varying based on ideology. According to Lyman Tower Sargent "[t]here are socialist, capitalist, monarchical, democratic, anarchist, ecological, feminist, patriarchal, egalitarian, hierarchical, racist, left-wing, right-wing, reformist, free love, nuclear family, extended family, gay, lesbian, and many more utopias". But we seek the perfect social balance for today's society and commerce.

The term "Utopia" was coined by Sir Thomas Moore in 1516 with his book "Utopia." The book features the fictional island of Utopia, which was said to be in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. On Utopia, there is always perfect order. Moore's book states that simple laws, education of both sexes, communal ownership and religious tolerance lead to peace and overall population happiness.

Moore's book and the idea of Utopia spawned a literary movement that detailed many different kinds of utopias. These include "New Atlantis" by Frances Bacon and "Candide" by Voltaire. It also inspired dystopian fiction, which featured societies at their worst. Examples of dystopian fiction include "1984" by George Orwell and "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley.

There are many different ideas of what a utopian society is like. Some believe in an ecological utopia, in which people live in harmony with the Earth and do not damage it in any way. A scientific utopia is one in which science has helped the human form reach perfection.

Our People's Manifesto is to develop an Economic and Political Utopia in which society's economics are structured so that citizens have what they need financially. This is sometimes called a 'Social Utopia' or 'Utopian socialism'. There have been many attempts to depict this type of society and many famous books written for example:


1516   Thomas More - Utopia

1623   Tommaso Campanella - City of the Sun

1627   Francis Bacon - New Atlantis

1656   James Harrington - The Common-wealth of the Oceanea

1776   Thomas Paine - Common Sense

1838   Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy in America

1885   Karl Marx - Das Kapital

1854   Henry David Thoreau - Walden

1872   Samuel Butler - Erewhon

1888   Edward Bellamy - Looking Backward

1892   William Morris - News from Nowhere

1894   William Dean Howells - A Traveler from Altruria

1933   James Hilton - Lost Horizon

1951   Isaac Asimov - Foundation

1966   Gene Roddenberry - Star Trek

1968   Stanley Kubrick - 2001: A Space Odyssey

1985   Carl Sagan - Contact

1985   William Gibson - Neuromancer

1992   Neal Stephenson - Snow Crash


And we will be using some references to these books in our Manifesto to justify some policies or ideologies.