George Orwell, in his famous essay, “Why Socialists Don't Believe in Fun,” aptly described the problem of any utopian ideal. “It seems that human beings are unable to describe, and perhaps not even imagine, happiness except in terms of contrast… Almost all the creators of Utopia resembled the man who has (a) toothache, and therefore he thinks that happiness consists in not having a toothache. They wanted to produce a perfect society through the infinite continuation of something that had had value only because it was temporary” (Orwell). In Thomas More's Utopia, Raphael Hythloday is used as a conduit through which More expresses his disgust with private property. It is surprising how much Orwell's words can be applied to More's Utopia. More's critique of private property is structurally fallible, and his description of an alternative is deeply implausible. Raphael usually outlines the alternative utopian economic and civic system, from the common "peasant subsistence economy" of More's England through his description of private property. the idealistic island of Utopia (Overton 4). Raphael's argument against private property is based on two main pillars; the perceived errors and failures of a capitalist peasant subsistence economy, and how seemingly intuitive the socialist alternatives of the island of Utopia are in resolving the tribulations that so perplex the world's peasants. If we analyze Raphael's argument, we find that it is grossly miscalculated. The assumptions made in both the construction of Utopia and the deconstruction of the English economic system are both contradictory and completely simplified. With the benefit of economic and historical hindsight we can see that Raphael assigns blame without knowledge, and we can see...... middle of paper...... A. Von. Collectivist economic planning. London: [sn], 1950. Print.Hunt, EK History of Economic Thought: A Critical Perspective. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2002. Print.Marx, Karl, Friedrich Engels, David McLellan, and Samuel Moore. The Communist Manifesto. Oxford [ua: Oxford UP, 1998. Print.Mill, John Stuart and W.J. Ashley. Principles of political economy, with some of their applications to social philosophy. New York: A. M. Kelley, oller, 1965. Print.More, Thomas and George M. Logan. Utopia: a revised translation, contexts, criticisms. New York: W.W. Norton &, 2011. Print.Orwell, George. George Orwell's collection of essays, journalism and letters. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1968. Print.Overton, Mark. Agricultural Revolution in England: the transformation of the agrarian economy, 1500-1850. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996. Print.