A sixteenth-century monk authored a utopia mixing theocracy and communism
Evidence
Tommaso Campanella (1568 1639), heretical Dominican monk, was the author of a famous early Utopia, La Citta del Sole (The City of the Sun), which put forward a theocratic-communistic ideal of social organisation including a form of sexual communism. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2421
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the library’s broader nonfiction themes around utopian social organization and religious radicalism; the theocratic-communist ideal also links forward to Gramsci’s own thinking about pre-modern religious radicalism as proto-revolutionary.