my hot take about The Dispossessed is that i think Ursula knew she was not depicting a perfect utopia and was in fact being a little cheeky about it
so much of that book is incredible and the society it depicts is fascinating and there’s much to be learned from it but… i think she knew she wasn’t showing us paradise
shevek fails many tests of his character, but maybe the most significant one is refusing to aid or even really acknowledge the communist revolutionaries down on the planet. in a book supposedly about a non- or even supposedly anti-egoistic society, shevek allows his own holier-than-thou attitude to obstruct and ultimately destroy the potential for revolutionary cooperation between annares and the communists on-planet. that alliance could actually lead to the destruction of the capitalist/propertarian order, but shevek is too moralistic.
remind you of anyone? a huge swath of pseudo-revolutionaries in the first world of our earth perhaps?
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