Anarchism

Her short story "The Day Before The Revolution" is a good add-on to this too, and the preface is interesting IMO.

My novel The Dispossessed is about a small worldful of people who call themselves Odonians. The name is taken from the founder of their society, Odo, who lived several generations before the time of the novel, and who therefore doesn't get into the action-- except implicitly, in that all the action started with her.

Odonianism is anarchism. Not the bomb-in-the-pocket stuff, which is terrorism, whatever name it tries to dignify itself with; not the social-Darwinist economic "libertarianism" of the far right; but anarchism. as prefigured in early Taoist thought, and expounded by Shelley and Kropotkin, Goldman and Goodman. Anarchism's principal target is the authoritarian State (capitalist or socialist); its principal moral-practical theme is cooperation (solidarity, mutual aid). It is the most idealistic, and to me the most interesting, of all political theories.

Thank you for the rec I’ll check it out!

In Canada alone we have had recent experiences both on the Federal and Provincial level

We've got a new UBI pilot program starting this year! I have no doubt it'll get set up for failure just like last time, but it's fun to think about a world that's not run by sociopaths. Of course, even if it does go well it'll be useless without crippling Capitalism first to prevent companies from just raising prices and funneling the individual UBI money into shareholder pockets.

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