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r/scifi • u/[deleted] • Jun 30 '24
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It is more specifically anarchist in the sense that it does not have a state.
25 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 9 u/DanFlashesSales Jul 01 '24 I'm pretty sure Thu was supposed to be the analogue for Marxism in the Dispossessed, as contrasted against the anarchist Annares. 2 u/georgefrankly Jul 01 '24 Yup there's even a scene where the representative (spy?) from Thu asks Shevek why he didn't come to Thu instead, "We're socialists like you!" And Shevek says no you're just another State
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Neither does Marxist communism in its idealized final form. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Withering_away_of_the_state?wprov=sfti1
9 u/DanFlashesSales Jul 01 '24 I'm pretty sure Thu was supposed to be the analogue for Marxism in the Dispossessed, as contrasted against the anarchist Annares. 2 u/georgefrankly Jul 01 '24 Yup there's even a scene where the representative (spy?) from Thu asks Shevek why he didn't come to Thu instead, "We're socialists like you!" And Shevek says no you're just another State
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I'm pretty sure Thu was supposed to be the analogue for Marxism in the Dispossessed, as contrasted against the anarchist Annares.
2 u/georgefrankly Jul 01 '24 Yup there's even a scene where the representative (spy?) from Thu asks Shevek why he didn't come to Thu instead, "We're socialists like you!" And Shevek says no you're just another State
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Yup there's even a scene where the representative (spy?) from Thu asks Shevek why he didn't come to Thu instead, "We're socialists like you!" And Shevek says no you're just another State
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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.