Campanella’s Utopia fused theocratic rule with communist social organization
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
Category: Factual Claims
- XREF: Links to the intellectual lineage behind the imagined-community concept the reader is building; Campanella as a pre-national universalist theocracy.