Re:Ursula Le Guin has died
by zokier on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @06:40PM
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This might not be the best time to put this comment, but quite some years ago I attempted reading Dispossessed, because it is such highly rated novel and Le Guin even more highly respected author. But I didn't get very far, the whole Communism vs Capitalism aspect felt so hamfisted and overbearing that I lost interest. That cold war did end, as such the context of modern reader is quite different. The political nature left kinda bad taste in my mouth when I was expecting more of fancy futuristic/scifi stuff.
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Re:Ursula Le Guin has died
by slartibardfast0 on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @06:57PM
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Why do this?
It's not like Ursula K. Le Guin's work was directly focused on allegory.
Feeling absent from two systems was a major point of The Dispossessed, not the content of either systems.
The book was mostly about how Anarchism and Capitalism produce power structures that work against the individual.
The communists in the book were not mentioned a lot from what I remember (there was a communist state on Urras?).