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Please don't read comments until you've read this. It is very short and fast to read. It is radicalizing. It is a good short story to send to your friend who needs to understand what capitalism is. LeGuin wrote this in 1973, cementing her status as Chad Supreme of Fuck Mountain. Bow before her might.
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I recently listened to the Very Bad Wizards episode on it, and it's super funny because they never bring up her politics, I think they might've been unaware of it or something. At one point they ask something like "Is it just like, a political allegory or something?" Good podcast but very liberal...
Have you read Le Guin's The Day Before the Revolution? It's both a short prequel to The Dispossessed and "about one of the ones who walked away from Omelas."
Ugh god how do liberals manage to feel smug about being smarter than everyone else and then still fuck this kind of thing up?
Haven't read it but I'll put that one on my list too!