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The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

Ursula K. Le Guin

Start date: August 1, 2021

Finish date: August 31, 2021

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Jul 30, 2024 Michael B. rated it it was amazing

Heinlein wrote Stranger in a Strange Land in the early 60’s. I know this had to influence LeGuin who penned this book a decade later. Heinlein wrote about a character from Mars who views life on Earth through a different lens upon his arrival. This perspective sparks some societal changes. Likewise LeGuin writes of a character who abandons Anaarres for the planet Urras because he finds life on his home planet stifling to a physicist of his stature. Anarres is populated by anarchists who explicit ...more

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Apr 17, 2023 Zach rated it it was amazing

An exploration of revolutionary movements and what just might happen if communism was finally achieved, or rather, what would happen if communism (specifically a kind of anarcho-communism/syndicalism) was able to develop without being under constant threat by capitalist powers.

The speculative fiction elements are wonderfully considered, and Ursula K Le Guin's interpretation of the final stateless, classless, moneyless society of communism is compelling. Whether the society is truly classless is ...more

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