Robert owen brief biography of prophet

Robert Owen (1771 – 1858), a founder of utopian socialism and the cooperative movement, was born in Wales 250 years ago last month on May 14. He was a scholar who acted according to his sayings. He believed that the character of humans is shaped by his environment; if the environment is good then even the worst can improve. He was a factory owner therefore was well-acquainted with the evils of capitalism personally too.

He made the plan for such a classless society whose every single unit would be limited from 300 to 2,000 people. So in 1800 he bought a cotton factory at New Lanark in Scotland and began experimenting with his views on a party of 500 workers.

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Gradually the population of his colony reached 2,500. In the beginning when these people began working in the factory and living in the colony, their moral condition was very low. Owen made this neo-colony a living example of the social life of the future. There was neither wine-drinking in this neo-colony nor fighting and quarre Robert Owen biography.

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