Country Mouse/City Mouse

I wish I knew what edition of the story this lovely illustration comes from,
but alas, I never wrote it down.
I am a bad example.

Remember the fable about the Country Mouse and the City Mouse? Even though the plot isn't (strictly speaking) relevant to our readings from Morris and Bellamy, it's always what I think of when I read these two stories. Both of them create a communist/socialist utopia, but they go about it in radically different ways. Every time I return to these novels, I'm struck by how similar their values are, and simultaneously how differently those values are realized.

These texts (published in 1888 and 1890) are very much products of their time! The Communist Manifesto was published in 1848 (1850 for the English translation). And there's quite a bit of Darwin to be found in there, too, if you're looking for it; On the Origin of Species was published in 1859.

Karl Marx.
He's hiding Engels in his jacket and won't let him escape.

A couple of you have mentioned that you'd like to see a utopia that combines these two. It would be interesting, wouldn't it? Could we find enough commonality, or are the differences just too great to reconcile?