We! It’s also just so good. And Alexandra Kollontai, Love of Worker Bees, if you really want to try to get into the post-revolutionary mindset. And have you seen Volga, Volga?
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We is a dystopian novel, the opposite of what I'm asking about here
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It's the archetypal dystopian novel. Orwell cribbed from it for 1984.
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it’s a much more ambivalent book than its western imitations and much more interesting
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It's not in the least ambivalent. I guess he didn't put DYSTOPIAN NIGHTMARE on the cover but otherwise I'm at a loss
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I dunno what to say. The dissolution of the family, criticisms of marriage as legalized prostitution, the whole complex of ideas around free love, have been utopian staples since the mid 19th century and many still believe in their liberatory potential.
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As for the Integral, Jeff Bezos literally thinks we should build it.
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Literal and figurative transparency, selective breeding, shared work and living spaces (the other We), all still staples of utopian thinking.
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Zamyatin is good and smart because he’s critical but it’s not a polemic or a burlesque like 1984 or Huxley
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Honestly I think you're misreading a savage takedown of scientific utopianism
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If you don’t want irony, you’ll need to reach back to German romantic literature (Marx loved Heine) or forwards to socialist realism.
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the german romantics are the queens of irony ?
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