OPEN UTOPIA

…in Utopia, where every man has a right to everything, they all know that if care is taken to keep the public stores full no private man can want anything…... Does the world really need another edition of Thomas More's Utopia? Kept in print more or less continuously since it was first published in 1516, the translations and editions of this book, not to mention the scholarly interpretations and academic dissertations based upon this slender volume, would likely constitute the mass of a medium-sized island in themselves. It takes a bit of audacity to introduce yet another version of Utopia. Yet I have done so here because what the world does not have, and what I believe it needs, is a complete English-language translation of Utopia that honors the primary precept of Utopia itself-that is, that all property is common property... This digital edition of Utopia is open: open to read, open to copying, open to modification. On this site Utopia is presented in different formats in order to..

Also known as: The Open Utopia