It is a broad (and from its origins pejorative) term for the pre-Marx and/or anti-Marx socialists.

My thoughts mainly went to the attemtps at communities to realise an alternative outside the realm of state power. But there is probably a lot more that has been downplayed by later socialists when the soc-dem/commie split became the major focal point.

Sweden's finest (and perhaps only) collaborative, leftist e-newspaper Synapze.se

I made the argument, following Polanyi, that the biggest Utopian experiment ever conducted was the implementation of Classical Economics in England in the 19th century. See WHO Are The Utopians? After all, based primarily on theory, the Classical Economists managed, with the not too surprising support of business, to convince politicians to totally restructure laws to make the society subservient to the economy -- a first in human history. In many ways this was more radical than what the Jacobins attempted in 18th Century France, and it largely succeeded. That success is the great grandfather of TINA!

"It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."