特里·伊格尔顿坦率地承认,他所不懈追求的事业是把世界推向一个未来的乌托邦的境地,这是唯物论马克思主义社会主义的基本梦想。然而,只有组织化的劳工阶级在政治上有足够的力量控制了自然资源、生产资料和整体性的政治结构,并控制了意义和价值的文化生产的时候,这一梦想才能实现。伊格尔顿梦想大众能获得幸福并实现个人价值,但是他不希望人们自己创造关于幸福、真理和价值的观念。人们必须认识到,他们的私人天性很大程度上是在与他人、与整个社会共同 Terry Eagleton frankly admitted that his unswerving pursuit of cause is to push the world to a future utopia, the basic dream of materialist Marxist socialism. However, this dream can come true only when the organized working class has enough political power to control the natural resources, the means of production and the overall political structure and control the cultural production of meaning and value. Eagleton dreamed of the general public gaining happiness and realizing personal values, but he does not want people to create their own ideas of happiness, truth, and value. People must recognize that their personal nature is largely shared with others and with society as a whole