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In ancient China in about the fifth century AD, there was a great pastoral poet, surnamed Tao Yuanming, the word Yuan Liang, his poetry and prose have been passed down through the ages, among which there is a famous prose, called "The Peach Blossom Spring", which describes a piece of isolated pure land on earth, the people who live in it are self-sufficient, have enough food and clothing, enjoy themselves, live happily, do not communicate with the outside world, there is no class, there is no exploitation, harmony and tranquility, it is an ideal society that the author and the working people really want to pursue.

Those who have studied English history must remember that in the 15th century there was a great philosophical thinker in England - Thomas Thomas. Moore, in fact, is also a politician and jurist, and here we will mainly briefly introduce his philosophical ideas and theories, so we will not discuss his contributions to politics and law here.

Thomas. More's philosophical theory is generally to establish an ideal social system to manage society, and I think many readers understand such a theoretical system in more detail than I do, so I will not go into it.

Thomas. Moore's description of his ideological system is most vividly described in his book "Utopia", so later scholars also called his theory utopia. Moore paints a fascinating and seductive picture of an island nation called Utopia, where private property is considered illegal, and he presents all possessions in his writings

The theory of "communal ownership", under the rule and governance of a purely rational religion, all officials are completely elected by the people themselves, the people of this country live freely according to their own nature, and do not pursue their own interests at the expense of the interests of others, the people here have good public moral qualities, they live in equality and freedom in harmony, and receive all the daily necessities they need according to the principle of distribution according to need, Their happiness index is undoubtedly the highest and most beautiful in the history of human development on this planet (if this country is not a fantasy but a reality), and it is undoubtedly the most ideal and desired civilization of human society.

Because his ideological theory transcended the times, there was almost no possibility of realization in the society at that time, and it lacked operability, so later thinkers, theorists, and philosophers called it the utopian socialist theory, but it is one of the theoretical bases and sources of modern communist thought, and has a wide and far-reaching influence in the field of social ideology and ideology.

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