What statement best defines the link between transcendentalist ideas and the idea of utopian communities?
a) transcendentalists disliked normal society and wished to live only among individuals who were like them.
b) the transcendentalists valued self-interest and individual rights above all and wanted a society based on those values.
c) sharing resources and labor for the benefit of the community were seen by many transcendentalists as the key to a better society.
d) many in the transcendentalist movement rejected government and organized religion; utopias were a way to escape them