/lit/ - Literature

I just finished Ursula Le Guin's award gobbling The Dispossessed from 1974. My initial thoughts? It's a clever book with a lot of worldbuilding; the barren planet founded by anarchists, and the capitalist dystopia they came from. Le Guin is comprehensive in her worldbuilding; geography, history, politics, culture, domestic life, education, dating, food production, and more besides. Annares and Urras feel like fully constructed worlds. I think this even surpasses Dune for breadth and depth of detail

Le Guin explores the shortcomings and pitfalls of the anarchist utopia while comparing/contrasting it with the capitalist hegemony. It turns out that anarchy can produce a restrictive orthodoxy and static society after all. In a society without government and private property, control comes from the collective social conscience, producing 'walls' that stultify the conscience and freedom of the individual, such as that of the genius physicist protagonist, who falls foul of the anarchists and elopes to the the other side. The book is full of comments on the nature of anarchy, capitalism, and the individual, but there is also an interesting subtext on the true nature of time and suffering. It's an extremely thematically dense book, and this along with the non-linear plotting meant that I had to pay more attention than is perhaps customary when reading most SF. I even took notes for heaven's sake. Anyway, it gets 4/5, one star omitted for making me work hard, and because I lost some interest during the lengthy passages about physics.

Opinions on this book? Anybody read it? Thoughts on the concept of the "ambiguous utopia", etc.
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>>5296254
It could be problematic, as there will always be a form of power that would rule over one given "anarchistic" society. And when people have grown in on it, they will forget what kind of society they are and the word changes meaning.