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Wikipedia
In the book there is a planet Urras (much like our own with A-Io being USA and Thu being USSR) with a big, planet-like,habitable moon Anarres. On this Urras there is a group of anarchist revolutionaries (Odoists) who want to change the society. So government finds a solution to their problem and in an agreement with Odoists sends them to a moon Anarres where they build there own anarchist society.
Has anyone read this book? I'm interested in discussing some ideas and problems from this book with some anarchists who read it..
I think it's a good representation of how anarchists envision anarchist society should look like and difficulties it may encounter. It helped me understand ideas of anarchism and why it would be a preferable choice to capitalist society. I recommend it to anyone who doesn't like reading philosophical books, but is interested in how anarchist society should function.
Does anyone know in what type of anarchism do they live in? I think it's something like anarcho-communism.
The Dispossessed a book by Ursula le Guin
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia is a 1974 utopian science fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin, set in the same fictional universe as that of The Left Hand of Darkness (the Hainish Cycle). The book won the Nebula Award in 1974,[1] both the Hugo and Locus Awards in 1975,[2] and received a nomination for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award in 1975
The Dispossessed looks into the mechanisms that may be developed by an anarchist society, but also the dangers of centralization and bureaucracy that might easily take over such society without the continuation of revolutionary ideology. Part of its power is that it gives a spectrum of fairly well-developed characters, who illustrate many types of personalities, all educated in an environment that measures people not by what they own, but by what they can do, and how they relate to other human beings. Possibly the best example of this is the character of Takver, the hero's partner, who exemplifies many virtues: loyalty, love of life and living things, perseverance, and desire for a true partnership with another person.
Wikipedia
In the book there is a planet Urras (much like our own with A-Io being USA and Thu being USSR) with a big, planet-like,habitable moon Anarres. On this Urras there is a group of anarchist revolutionaries (Odoists) who want to change the society. So government finds a solution to their problem and in an agreement with Odoists sends them to a moon Anarres where they build there own anarchist society.
Has anyone read this book? I'm interested in discussing some ideas and problems from this book with some anarchists who read it..
I think it's a good representation of how anarchists envision anarchist society should look like and difficulties it may encounter. It helped me understand ideas of anarchism and why it would be a preferable choice to capitalist society. I recommend it to anyone who doesn't like reading philosophical books, but is interested in how anarchist society should function.
Does anyone know in what type of anarchism do they live in? I think it's something like anarcho-communism.
Beware of the fish people, they are the true enemy.- F Zappa
To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge. - B. Disraeli
To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge. - B. Disraeli