I’m about a quarter of the way through The Dispossessed, and I’m pretty disappointed so far. It seems like a flat character expounding on the virtues of Anarcho-syndicalism, but I just have a hard time believing it.
It honestly reminds me of Atlas Shrugged. It’s this ideal world where an idealist system works, and it’s hard to make it believable.
Maybe I’m just a hater. I guess I shouldn’t have an opinion until I finish it.
I finished it a few years ago, and I also couldn’t understand why ppl love this book. It was incredibly idealist (the capitalist power just agrees to not attack the anarchist commune for no reason at all).
The characters had zero depth, and were only used as props to expound on how bad the capitalist culture was. There’s an insurrection in the story iirc, but its completely unorganized and hopeless.
I’m glad I’m not alone! I think it’s strange that she sets the capitalist society up as somehow sustainable and having learned from it’s mistakes.
If they really learned, would they be capitalist? (somewhat undialectical)
That’s what I’m thinking! In the book, the capitalist society has limited the use of cars because of pollution, and I just don’t see that being possible under capitalism.
Because liberals/anarchists tend to like it and they are idealists.