Anarchy with Ruth Kinna #2 Anarchist Utopias

Week two Anarchist utopias

This session looks at two literary utopias: Louisa Bevington’s Common Sense Country and William Morris’s News from Nowhere. Bevington called herself anarchist communist. Morris was a sometime pro-anarchist and sometime anti-anarchist communist. Nevertheless, Kropotkin described News from Nowhere as a perfect anarchist utopia. What are we to make of these dreamy ideals?

Supporting Readings:

[yazanasad]

London is quite clean now actually, been huge initiative to make it green.
Utopia as stimulating imagination.
Interesting love conflicts still arise.

Revolution to make people happier, that's the whole point. And doing unpleasant work is at the heart of this.
Not sure how work exactly when unpleasant work is needed.