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This text presents a contribution to political thought, culminating in the description of the "utopians". These figures live according to the principles of natural law, but are receptive to Christian teachings, hold all possessions in common and view gold as worthless.

Los países democráticos aumentan en el mundo; sin embargo, la satisfacción de sus ciudadanos disminuye, interpretándose el fenómeno como de «democracias de baja calidad». Ante esa situación, se impone su profundización, no sólo en las formas sino también en los procedimientos y la evaluación de los resultados, controlando que todos los espacios de democratización se desarrollen en paridad, en un espacio político ampliado, que incluya perspectivas ético-políticas y psico-culturales. Desde ese escenario, este trabajo examina brevemente los conceptos de «paz (pacifismo)», «feminismo» y «utopía», para revisar cómo se enlazan y abren nuevos horizontes políticos. ; Abstract: Nowadays, there are more democratic countries; but their citizens are less and less satisfied, what is signified as «low quality democracies». To face these circumstances, not only about the formal but also about the proceedings and the results, all possible areas to be democratized in parity, among a public political space including ethic-political and psychocultural perspectives. Facing this description of facts, this work aims to analyze briefly the concepts of «pacifism», «feminism» and «utopia» and their further articulations, opening to new political horizons.

This article is the first in a new series of Editor's Review Column's to be published in Policy Futures in Education. The primary and modest purpose of this innovation for the journal is expand the number of texts that are reviewed in it. However, in doing so, a broader intention, which attempts to engage with and encourage interdisciplinary work in the field of education, as well as draw other from outside the field to it, is revealed. A large amount of excellent and important work is published in a range of disciplines which educationalists are not often introduced to and, equally, the educational resonances and ramifications of this work often go unexplored. Each column will be guided by a theme which draws together several texts that are considered to offer insights which might productively inform educational theory and debate. The objective of the column is not to exhaustively relay the content of each text and display its full implicit or potential educational reach; it is rather to shine a light on these texts so that they might be examined further. We hope that readers of the journal will find this column of interest and that new readers from other disciplines might be drawn to the work of the journal through it.

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The aim of this article is to analyze the close relation between social theory ("sociological phenomenalism") and the political ideology of the Polish thinker Edward Abramowski. Abramowski's "applied sociology" involved: (1) the sociology of "fraternity," examining basic forms of socialization; (2) combining social revolution with ethical self-improvement; and (3) the dissemination of "social laboratories" through the development of a network of cooperatives. As "experiments of the will," the cooperatives allowed Abramowski to combine science, imagination, and ethics in a coherent project of political utopia-building, extending the possible forms of community. Finally, the article shows that in Abramowski's case, the meaning of utopia as an element embedded in a wide range of political practices derives from his vision of social science. Due to the influence that Abramowski's thought had on political reality in Poland, the concept of "experimental" utopia entered the vocabulary of modern social sciences in Poland for good.

The article examines the positive and negative aspects of political correctness. Using the case of Donald Trump and looking back at the origins of politics, the manifestations of political (in)correctness under democratic conditions are analysed. The question of political (in)correctness arises in a democratic environment for three reasons. 1. As rule of the majority, democracy requires a compensation mechanisms for minorities. 2. Political correctness should be applied to any holder of political freedoms who elects and is elected under democratic conditions. 3. The very consideration of political correctness arises in a sufficiently democratic environment of free speech. what is politically correct and incorrect depends on the country's social circumstances, cultural traditions and language characteristics. Democracy is an environment in which political incorrectness is unmasked and the very dogma of political correctness is falsified. It is shown that political correctness has also an ideological aspect.

The article examines the positive and negative aspects of political correctness. Using the case of Donald Trump and looking back at the origins of politics, the manifestations of political (in)correctness under democratic conditions are analysed. The question of political (in)correctness arises in a democratic environment for three reasons. 1. As rule of the majority, democracy requires a compensation mechanisms for minorities. 2. Political correctness should be applied to any holder of political freedoms who elects and is elected under democratic conditions. 3. The very consideration of political correctness arises in a sufficiently democratic environment of free speech. what is politically correct and incorrect depends on the country's social circumstances, cultural traditions and language characteristics. Democracy is an environment in which political incorrectness is unmasked and the very dogma of political correctness is falsified. It is shown that political correctness has also an ideological aspect.

The history of political and legal thought is inextricably linked with multiform approaches to the study of the essence of the state as a multi-element category. Scientists tried to find ways and means of creating a society that could become a prototype and model of an etalon union of people leading to the universal happiness and balance of interests of each individual in it. In the search for the best or best form of the state, the concepts of difficult to execute and sometimes even illusory forms of social management were forming, which were defined as utopian projects.

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction A Land of Utopias -- Chapter 1 The Theologico–Political Utopia of Father Antônio Vieira -- A Transatlantic Writing of the Future -- How to Predict the Time to Come -- A Perfect Temporal Empire -- A Utopia of Perpetual Peace -- Chapter 2 Amazons in the Amazon: Communitarian Matriarchy in the Jungle -- The Realm of the Amazons -- The Feminized Territory of the Rubber Boom -- Back to the Golden Age: Amazonian Incas -- Utopia in the Land of the Icamiabas -- Matriarchy to Come -- Chapter 3 Zoophytographia: Interspecies Literature and the Writings of Clarice Lispector -- Nation and Nature -- Zoophytographia: Literature as Shamanism -- Lispector's Plants and Animals -- Writing One's Life with Others -- Animal Encounters: The Passion According to G.H. -- Interspecies Literature -- Chapter 4 Idling in the Tropics: Utopias of Leisure -- Leisurely Golden Ages and the Ideology of Work -- Leisure and Labor in Paradise -- A New World of Rest: Ócio vs Negócio -- Between Order and Disorder: From the Cordial Man to the Malandro Slacker -- Idling in a State of Exception: Carnival -- A Leisurely Sexual Haven -- Idleness and Art -- Epilogue The Country of the Future -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index

The paper analyzes the basic concepts, approaches, objectives and individual tasks of the National strategy for sustainable development in Serbia. These goals and objectives are viewed in the context of the lack of adequate political, administrative capacity and democratic deficit. These restrictions are the result of ignoring environmental problems and sustainable development as a political problem and issues of survival and social development. Therefore, the question of achieving sustainable development strategy in this paper and presented as a problem of formalization one of the possible conditions for the admission of Serbia into the European Union. This process of formalization is just visible through the slow process of realizing this strategy, lack of interest subjects of political life for the process and inadequate media coverage. High goals, thereby fully harmonized with the existing economic capacities, and general social awareness of the urgency and importance of sustainable development define this strategy not as a political vision but as a kind of political utopia. ; U radu se analiziraju osnovne koncepcije, pristupi, ciljevi i pojedinačni zadaci Nacionalne strategije održivog razvoja u Republici Srbiji. Ovi ciljevi i zadaci se posmatraju u kontekstu nedostatka adekvatnog političkog, administrativnog kapaciteta i demokratskog deficita. Ova ograničenja su rezultat ignorisanja ekoloških problema i održivog razvoja kao političkog problema i pitanja opstanka ekonomskog i socijalnog razvoja. Zato je pitanje ostvarivanja strategije održivog razvoja u ovom radu i postavljeno kao problem formalizovanja jednog od mogućih uslova za prijem Srbije u Evropsku uniju. Taj proces formalizacije je vidljiv upravo kroz proces sporog ostvarivanja ove strategije, nezainteresovanosti subjekata političkog života za taj proces i neadekvatne medijske podrške. Visoko postavljeni ciljevi, pri tome potpuno neusklađeni sa postojećim ekonomskim kapacitetima i opšte društvenom svešću o urgentnosti i značaju održivog razvoja, definišu ovu strategiju ne kao političku viziju već kao svojevrsnu političku utopiju.