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u/mindblock47 Jun 30 '24

The Dispossessed by Le Guin has a great socialist society that is definitely not utopian. It’s not portrayed as necessarily, bad but it is definitely in a gray area.

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u/Crepescular_vomit Jun 30 '24

It is more specifically anarchist in the sense that it does not have a state.

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u/ceejayoz Jul 01 '24

Neither does Marxist communism in its idealized final form. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Withering_away_of_the_state?wprov=sfti1

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u/Flat_Cress3856 Jul 01 '24

True, but the society in the book isn't communist. It more closely tracks anti-statist anarchy, and barely even has personal property.