Abstract
It always seems dangerous to talk about an 'ideal society' because this is exactly what all the totalitarian and authoritarian regimes have been looking for. It has also been the ultimate purpose of all politics since Antiquity and one of the biggest dream of humankind. First of all, an ideal society needs to be based on the definition of strong values like equality, freedom and justice. It has to respect and promote human rights but it has to go further by setting up specific conditions to man's self-fulfillment . The Socialist Experiment in the 20th century in Russia was an attempt to create an ideal society based on the idea of straight equality among men. The main reason for failure was lack of freedom of the citizens. On the other hand, today, we live in a free market economy, and since the end of the cold war, the capitalist ideology has never been so powerful. But the last economic crisis and its repercussions demonstrated that we are far from living in an ideal society and that some improvements have to be made.
