josh • read

by Ursula K Le Guin. about a guy who exiles himself from his anarcho-communist moon to preach revolution on a planet with a capitalist system of government. some of it hit, some of it felt outdated/reductive (written in the 1970s) - would have loved to spend more time on Anarres - a compelling harsh environment with a workers society constantly doubting and reaffirming it's way of life.

phenakistoskope • read

BennyX • read

Great book comparing two different societies under capitalism and Anarchism. It had me thinking about all the ways capitalism shapes our behaviours. Cool Quotes: "But all these people hurried along, on business, wanting no idle talk, no waste of their valuable time. Their hurry infected him. He must go somewhere, he thought, as he came out into the sunlight and the crowded magnificence of Moie Street." "You Urrasti have enough. Enough air, enough rain, grass, oceans, food, music, buildings, factories, machines, books, clothes, history. You are rich. you own. We are poor, we lack. You have, we do not have. Everything is beautiful here. Only not the faces. On Anarres nothing is beautiful, nothing but the faces. The other faces, the men and women. We have nothing but that, nothing but each other. Here you see the jewels, there you see the eyes. And in the eyes you see the splendor, the splendor of the human spirit. Because our men and women are free-possessing nothing, they are free. And you the possessors are possessed. You are all in jail. Each alone, solitary, with a heap of what he owns. You live in prison, die in prison. It is all I can see in your eyes-— the wall, the wall!"

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okayseurat • reading

Hooked. It took getting over the hump of the first chapter to get going, but once I did, I was all in.

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