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It’s not the book’s fault that the internet modeled it’s idea of wit off of it.
For fiction I recommend LeGuin’s Dispossessed, it’s easily the clearest sci-fi argument for anarchism and yet isn’t utopian in the slightest.
That or Kobayashi’s Crab Cannery Ship for a starkly unromantic view of oppressed crab fishermen and their proletarian uprising.
For non-fiction, read Desert, it is a good reminder that climate collapse will continue given our current capitalist system, but humans can still survive in nomadic non-state communities because they already are (and the climate is already collapsing)
sorry you didn’t like Hitchhiker’s, I think it’s style of cheeky british humor has been ruined by reddit and other things influenced by it (modern Doctor Who comes to mind)
For fiction I recommend LeGuin’s Dispossessed, it’s easily the clearest sci-fi argument for anarchism and yet isn’t utopian in the slightest.
Wanted to suggest the same. Though the audio book is also fine (after chapter 2-3). In my opinion it isn’t such a clear cut case for anarchy, but a really good account of how in anarchism we could try to create a community that actually works.
In my opinion it isn’t such a clear cut case for anarchy, but a really good account of how in anarchism we could try to create a community that actually works.
Right, it’s not saying that anarchy is best system, I just meant that it the book lays out how anarchism works with a believable set of examples and ties in to the story better than any other book I’ve read.
I’ve written a bunch of books. One I’ve been handing out here is a socialist take on the zombie invasion novel. I wrote it really fast when coronavirus was just getting going in the USA early last spring. Basically, zombies invade an island in Maine, but people on the island fight back and turn their community into a commune that conquers the universe.
If you’re interested, let me know and I’ll send you the dropbox link. I can’t get it published and I’m sick of self-publishing on Amazon. edit: people can also PM me and I’ll send them the link.
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