The term ‘Utopia’ was coined by Thomas More, meaning a perfect environment. Francis Bacon, in his book New Atlantis, advocated a scientific approach. He thought of a research-institute-like society where inhabitants studied science in an effort to create a harmonious environment through their accumulation of knowledge. There were 40 utopian-themed novels written between 1700 and 1850 because of many social injustices prevalent at those times, like slavery and oppression.
The idea of socialism was not popular until 1700s, when the industrial revolution caused some drastic changes around the world. Socialism emerged as a result of Capitalism, which believed that the working conditions of workers can be improvised if the control of production can be moved from capitalist to the state. The main figures during the origin of socialism were Robert Owen, Karl Marx, Claude Henri de Saint-Simon, Louis Blanc, Charles Fourier and some others.
In The Communist Manifesto Karl Marx stated:
The bourgeoisie, during its rule of scarce one hundred years, has created more massive and more colossal productive forces than have all preceding generations together. Subjection of Nature's forces to man, machinery, application of chemistry to industry and agriculture, steam-navigation, railways, electric telegraphs, clearing of whole continents for cultivation, canalization of rivers, whole populations conjured out of the ground—what earlier century had even a presentiment that such productive forces slumbered in the lap of social labour.
The main ideology of modern socialists was not to disrupt the technological advancements, but to redistribute the outcomes and profits more fairly. We are now going to analyse Tata Singur Controversy on the basis of socialism and its principles.
Analysis of Singur Tata Nano controversy
Singur Tata Nano Issue refers to the controversy generated by the land acquisition of the proposed Nano factory of Tata Motors at Singur in