In this chapter, I revisit the concept of utopia to argue for its critical potential within contemporary theory. I begin by addressing the four main objections to utopian thought: its alleged impracticality, its lack of scientific rigor, its bourgeois ideological basis, and its supposed affinity with totalitarianism. Drawing on Thomas More’s Utopia, I respond to each criticism by highlighting the rootedness of utopian imagination in social analysis, its dialectical relation to existing contradictions, and its role as a projection of alternative possibilities grounded in justice and emancipation. I argue that utopia is not abstract fantasy, but a form of critical imagination that responds to dystopia and reveals what is unjust in the present by envisioning plausible alternatives. More’s text, far from being metaphysical, is anchored in historical experience and motivated by the suffering of the oppressed. Utopian critique, as I define it, thus complements other forms of critique by providing the imaginative resources necessary for political transformation.