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Oneida Utopia is a fresh and holistic treatment of a long-standing social experiment born of revival fervor and communitarian enthusiasm. The Oneida Community of upstate New York was dedicated to living as one family and to the sharing of all property, work, and love. Anthony Wonderley is a sensitive guide to the things and settings of Oneida life from its basis in John H. Noyes's complicated theology, through experiments in free love and gender equality,...
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Un programme complet d'actions à mettre en place pour une meilleure société. Retour sur Utopia est un essai qui a pour but la prise de conscience et la sensibilisation à une thèse : la fatalité n'est due qu'à notre indifférence et notre déficit d'implication dans tous les grands domaines de notre société. L'écologie, la consommation, les OGM, les infrastructures débordantes, l'immigration subie mais organisée par l'État, les délocalisations,...
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This book surveys revolutionary socialist ideas and engages a gallery of contentious political thinkers, offering an indispensable assessment of the place of revolutionary collectives in this radical tradition.
Beginning with a broad and informative survey of scholarship on V.I. Lenin and "Leninism," Le Blanc goes on to explore the multifaceted "collective" qualities of the Russian Bolshevik organization. He then turns his attention to several of...
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As the 50th anniversary of the events of May 68' passes, it leaves a familiar, image heavy trail in it's wake - young street fighting Parisians, earnest but chic looking Sorbonne occupiers, the iconic graffiti /posters : imagery all long since passed into the mythology of pop culture, endlessly recycled and recuperated, stripped bare of real political legacy. Within that mythology, the role of the Situationists has long been contested: underplayed...
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In his seminal socio history of Punk, "England's Dreaming", Jon Savage makes the bald assertion that "Charles Radcliffe laid the foundation for the next twenty years of sub-cultural theory", referring in particular to his 1966 piece "the Seeds of Social Destruction' that appeared in the first of two issues of Radcliffe's co-authored, insurrectionary street-zine, 'Heatwave'. Teddy Boys, Ton Up Kids, Mods and Rockers, Beats, Ban the Bombers, The Ravers...
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The must-read summary of Mark Levin's book: "Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America".
This complete summary of "Ameritopia" by Mark Levin, a New York Times #1 bestseller outlines the author's description of an ideal, utopian American society. He argues that when the government enacts laws to create distribute wealth in a fairer way, they are in reality getting closer to tyranny. The popular work leaves the reader with a compelling message about freedom...
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This book is a learned essay at the intersection of politics, philosophy, and religion. It is first and foremost a diagnosis and critique of the secular religion of our time, humanitarianism, or the "religion of humanity." It argues that the humanitarian impulse to regard modern man as the measure of all things has begun to corrupt Christianity itself, reducing it to an inordinate concern for "social justice," radical political change, and an increasingly...
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La solution d'un libre penseur de campagne ? présente des clés qui permettent d'aborder pacifiquement notre pratique mensongère et destructrice de la démocratie. L'auteur dresse un constat alarmant : la régression de l'humanisme et propose des résolutions sociopolitiques simples pour remédier à cette situation.
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Robert Gagne a écrit ce livre en communion avec son épouse disparue. Pour lui, l'écriture revêt une...
89) Utopias of One
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Joshua Kotin is associate professor of English at Princeton University and an affiliated faculty member in the university's Program in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies.
Utopias fail. Utopias of one do not. They are perfect worlds. Yet their success comes at a cost. They are radically singular-and thus exclusive and inimitable.
Utopias of One is a major new account of utopian writing. Joshua Kotin examines how eight writers-Henry David...
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"A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year" Gregory Claeys is professor emeritus of the history of political thought at the University of London. His many books include Marx and Marxism and Searching for Utopia. Twitter @GClaeysHistory
How the utopian tradition offers answers to today's environmental crises
In the face of Earth's environmental breakdown, it is clear that technological innovation alone won't save our planet. A more radical...
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Nitzan Lebovic claims that political melancholy is the defining trait of a generation of Israelis born between the 1960s and 1990s. This cohort came of age during wars, occupation and intifada, cultural conflict, and the failure of the Oslo Accords. The atmosphere of militarism and conservative state politics left little room for democratic opposition or dissent.
Lebovic and others depict the failure to respond not only as a result of institutional...
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By the middle of the twenty-first century, war, famine, economic collapse, and climate catastrophe had toppled the world's governments. In the 2050s, the insurrections reached the nerve center of global capitalism-New York City. This book, a collection of interviews with the people who made the revolution, was published to mark the twentieth anniversary of the New York Commune, a radically new social order forged in the ashes of capitalist collapse.
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Since beginning publication in1964, The Socialist Register has been one of the most important sources of engaged, critical, and influential theoretical interventions on the socialist left. Released as an annual with a focus on publishing rigorous, sustained pieces that take up particular themes, it has always been committed to developing an independent, nonsectarian relationship with Marxism. This volume-the Register's first-ever reader-grapples with...
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Within the history of African American struggle against racist oppression that often verges on dystopia, a hidden tradition has depicted a transfigured world. Daring to speculate on a future beyond white supremacy, black utopian artists and thinkers offer powerful visions of ways of being that are built on radical concepts of justice and freedom. They imagine a new black citizen who would inhabit a world that soars above all existing notions of the...
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"Environmentalism has relentlessly warned about the dire consequences of abusing and exploiting the planet's natural resources, imagining future wastelands of ecological depletion and social chaos. But it has also generated rich new ideas about how humans might live better with nature. Green Utopias explores these ideas of environmental hope in the post-war period, from the environmental crisis to the end of nature. Using a broad definition of Utopia...
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