This chapter addresses the fundamentally antipolitical aspects of the utopian tradition, including the attempt to transcend “politics,” and the charge that the eternal search for near unanimity of opinion is fundamentally antidemocratic. It examines the (mis)interpretation of utopia as “perfection,” and the optimal role played by consent in utopian relationships and argues that the central theme in the utopian theory of democracy is its insistence on social equality. This is what was broadly understood, with Thomas More’s text as a template, as the “utopian program” by the late eighteenth century. Finally, it discusses some prominent contemporary antidemocratic utopian trends, and asks our most important question today, whether we can achieve consensus in time to avert the catastrophic destruction of our natural environment, and what we can do in the absence of such a consensus.