![]() Anarchism’s principal target is the authoritarian State (capitalist or socialist) its principal moral-practical theme is cooperation (solidarity, mutual aid). 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. The year after the novel appeared, Le Guin explained what she meant by the term: ![]() She did not even live to see the revolution she instigated, but her life and writings became the inspiration for Odonianism. Le Guin’s 1974 multiple-award-winning novel The Dispossessed, the philosopher and revolutionary Laia Asieo Odo is a magisterial presence-even though she lived on a different planet and died several generations before the period in which the novel is set. More of Winkowski’s artwork can be seen at his website Moons, Machines, and Martians. ![]() Le Guin: The Hainish Novels & Storiesįred Winkowski’s jacket design for the first American edition of The Dispossessed, Harper & Row, 1974. ![]() “ Sisters and Science Fiction,” Karl Kroeber.Le Guin’s The Dispossessed” (Jo Walton, Tor.com) Le Guin” (Julie Phillips, The New Yorker) ![]()
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