Years ago I was intrigued after reading "The Dispossesed" a science fiction novel by Ursula LeGuin. The scenario is that there is a planet with a habitable near orbit moon. A century or so before the story begins there is a worker's anarchist/socialist rebellion on the home planet. The planet's ruling classes compromise and allow the insurgents to establish a utopian colony on the moon. This society evolves its own language and culture.
Could something like this have happened on Earth or is this totally, utterly ASB? What I mean is could there have been a socialist inspired nation-state created by colonization? There have been elements of this in OTL. The establishment of Israel, the kibbutzim came close (if not living up to the original promise). The early British settlement of New Zealand was originally inspired by idealistic elements of the Scottish Presbyterian Church.
Eugene Debs, the grand old leader of the US Socialist Party, at one time proposed a colonization scheme (generally the idea of colonization was considered to be un-Marxist), The US Mormons established their own society.
There have been, and are, zillions of small utopian communes which have come and gone, from the 19th century Brook Farm to Steve Gaskin's Farm in Tennessee. What I mean is the establishment of a large alternate society, based on some sort of socialist/anarchist/utopian principles and perhaps developing its own language and culture. Locations might be New Zealand, Australia, the Western US or Canada.
The 19th century would have been the most likely time period-utopian philosophies were popular and today's nation-states were still in flux and formation.Also, I don't think a utopian nation-state would have succeeded long range but would it have been able to come into existence?
I know we'd have to tweak a lot of things but is this totally ASB?