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It imagined an anarchist society on a planet, examining shortcomings of capitalism and communism through speculative fiction.
The second book is Ursula Le Guin's The Dispossessed, which I have been teaching for 25 years... It is a wonderful kind of imagining of an anarchist society on a planet called Anares, and it sort of r...
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Episode: What Communes and Other Radical Experiments in Liv...
It imagined an anarchist society on a planet, examining shortcomings of capitalism and communism through speculative fiction.
The second book is Ursula Le Guin's The Dispossessed, which I have been teaching for 25 years... It is a wonderful kind of imagining of an anarchist society on a planet called Anares, and it sort of reflects on the deficiencies of both capitalism and communism as it was in the 20th century.
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Zeynep Tufekci called it her favorite work of science fiction, noting it was one of the first books she read in English.
Now, that one is easy because I'm an Ursula Le Guin fan and hands down like dispossessed as always in my favorite work of science fiction, partly because I read it as one of the first books I read after learning English.
