I'm excluding sci-fi because you can trivially get to universal abundance with magic robots, and that's not interesting. I want to understand the world the revolutionaries were daydreaming of living in.
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what did I just say
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Why exclude sci-fi? Especially since dealing with utopias/dystopias almost pushes it into the genre by definition (e.g. 1984 and Brave New World are often classified that way)
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I mean leave out scenarios where magic robots solve all of humanity's problems, like Iain Banks's Culture series
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Communism doesn't work, eventually, you run out of free stuff due to production and resource limits. It's all fictional fantasy and thus a form of sci-fi.
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I want to understand the imagined goal of the true believers, as they imagined it at the time.
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Walden Two.
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We could probably answer this better if generations of Party leaders hadn’t worked so hard to discourage literature in favor of propaganda…
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'Looking Backward: 2000–1887' (which predates actual communist states) Francis Spufford's 'Red Plenty' isn't that but still worth a read.
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