If thinkers as diverse as Rousseau, Paine, and Tonnies are all to be understood as Utopian insofar as they criticize the present from the standpoint of a real or imagined past,
then utopianism is an honored mode of cultural criticism.
There has never been a democratic state which has constructed a system of social welfare and
then succumbed to fascism (or communism)... In an extreme version of market
utopianism (which Hayek himself opposed) the Vienna School merges with the thinking of Ayn Rand; competition represents the very meaning of life.