believed in the idea of cooperative communities built through individual initiative.
Explanation Robert Owen was known for cooperative community. He felt that the government should also support the cooperative community. He purchased the city Harmony in Indiana (US) in the year 1825 and renamed it, New Harmony. His aim was to develop it into a utopian community. It was to make a community of a new world of happiness, enlightenment, and prosperity through education, science, and technology with communal living. Robert Owen believed in the idea of cooperative communities built through individual initiatives.