I was here trying to remember where I once read he was the pioneer in dytopian sci-fi, it was wikipedia "Along with Jack London's The Iron Heel, We is generally considered to be the grandfather of the satirical futuristic dystopia genre. ". Yes, there are Utopia writers in the past, as such as you mentioned, Thomas More, Francis Bacon (Plato wrote a sort of Utopia) and more recently H.G. Wells, etc, all of them before WE... Imo WE goes another brand new way