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Utopianism

  • SOURCE: The Baffler
    4/18/2022

    The Lost Utopian Communes of the Midwest

    by Evan Malmgren

    "Inland America is pocked with the unmarked graves of communitarian utopias—primitive socialist and communist experiments—that tried to rebuild the world on what was assumed to be virgin soil."

  • SOURCE: Los Angeles Review of Books
    11/28/2021

    Utopia’s Settler Colonialism Problem

    by Jessica Namakkal

    The commune movements of the 1960s counterculture were organized around a number of pernicious assumptions about indigenous people and the prerogatives of whites to settle and reorganize land. 

  • SOURCE: New York Times
    6/15/2021

    How to Think Like a Utopian

    The Dutch macrohistorian says that utopian thinking – that doesn't accept the present as necessary or permanent – is very different from fatalism because it ideally spurs action.