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In Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward, what is, on the surface, a time travel love story quickly becomes a deep exploration of society, its values, and the proper role of government. Bellamy offers a utopian vision of the future in which industry is nationalized and wealth is equalized in a classless society. A work of huge consequence in its day, the novel shaped politics in both the U.S. and Europe and inspired a grassroots movement. It was also...
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France's Community of the Ark is one of the past century's most successful experiments in utopian living. Founded by Lanza del Vasto, a Christian disciple of Mahatma Gandhi, it offers an inspiring model for a nonviolent society. Mark Shepard shared the life of this remarkable community for six weeks in 1979 and reported on what he found.
103) The Equality Bomb
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Bombs destroy a city; an equality bomb destroys a people.
The Equality Bomb, like rent control, is manufactured by well-intentioned rulers who don't understand what they are doing. They, just as advocates of rent control, see disparities among groups in the population, are pained by them, and seek to do good by eradicating them.
"I should sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than...
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En un formidable esfuerzo de selección, Martín Bergel propone una sugestiva clave de lectura de un corpus que parece inabarcable: a contrapelo de una interpretación de Mariátegui que lo asimila a una tradición "nacional-popular", esta Antología recupera la riqueza de un pensamiento tan tensionado por su voluntad de marxismo para encauzar los problemas peruanos como por la inquietud cosmopolita y el internacionalismo.
Así, en estos textos se...
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Authoritarianism is on the march-and so is dystopian fiction. In the brave new twenty-first century, young-adult series like The Hunger Games and Divergent have become blockbusters; after Donald Trump's election, two dystopian classics, 1984 and The Handmaid's Tale, skyrocketed to the New York Times best-seller list. This should come as no surprise: dystopian fiction has a lot to say about the perils of terrible government in real life.
In Survive...
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Are you a high performing, high achiever, who desires tools to relieve anxiety and depression? This book is for you. We all experience some form of stress, worry or sadness and blues. Discover simple practices you can implement today to live your healthiest, happiest life. Learn easy ways to empower and uplift yourself and get started on being the best you. The included workbook guides you in a 21-day journey to build new healthy habits that stick....
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A publication on the Arya Dharma (Noble Dharma) - A better way by a unique combination of our heritage, spirituality and current affairs by going back to the future.
Bharata(India) has the greatest history, heritage and culture ever possessed by any civilization in the history of the Universe.
It is a real shame of what we have become today because we blindly try to ape and emulate the fraud FUKUS (France, UK, USA) systems of "casino capitalism"...
108) Dieu et l'État
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Il n'y a que deux moyens pour convaincre les masses de la bonté d'une institution sociale quelconque. Le premier, le seul réel, mais aussi le plus difficile, parce qu'il implique l'abolition de l'État c'est-à-dire l'abolition de l'exploitation politiquement organisée de la majorité par une minorité quelconque, ce serait la satisfaction directe et complète de tous les besoins, de toutes les aspirations humaines des masses; ce qui équivaudrait...
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Alors que de nombreux mouvements citoyens luttent contre le réchauffement climatique, quelles sont les mesures à prendre au niveau politique ?
Jamais les préoccupations écologiques n'ont été aussi présentes dans les esprits, jamais les déclarations des média, des politiques, des scientifiques et des citoyens n'ont été aussi nombreuses sur ce sujet. Jamais la nécessité d'associer justice sociale et justice climatique n'a été autant...
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Since 2010, Master Ryuho Okawa has published over two hundred spiritual messages, in Japanese, from the spirits of historical men and women and the guardian spirits of today's living figures. With this Spiritual Interview Series, Master Okawa is now making these important messages available in English. The books in this series are messages from the spirits or guardian spirits of people who have a great deal of influence over world affairs. These messages...
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The American Dream reloaded.
We need an ethical revolution, not a minor movement.
Are women better leaders and statesmen? Why do we export bombs instead of books? Rey Rodriguez has condensed many casual observations into a political plot and scratched umpteen awful points. Come join his dream of a more peaceful world!
What if?
In his political utopia "She, the President." Rey Rodriguez outlines the extraordinary career of Polly, a person of color...
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What is to be done when the future's already ablaze? With the international spread of right-wing "populism," widening inequalities, precarious forms of labor becoming normative, surveillance capitalism, and a worsening ecological crisis, the future is bleak. One issue in particular, the likelihood of catastrophic climate change, coupled with the lack of a global movement with the organization and vision to effectively challenge our suicidal social...
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A utopia is an imagined community or society that possesses highly desirable or nearly perfect qualities for its citizens. The term was coined by Sir Thomas More for his 1516 book Utopia, describing a fictional island society in the south Atlantic Ocean off the coast of South America. The opposite of a utopia is a dystopia, which dominates the fictional literature. Dystopian fiction (sometimes combined with, but distinct from, apocalyptic fiction)...
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The "Yellow Book" is the annual fruit of research conducted by the World Socialism Research Center attached to the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, which is a selection of cutting-edge and representative research articles dealing with the issues of world socialism and the world socialist movement as its driving force. Following up the newest developments, changes and transformations of our era, the global predicament resulting from the still ongoing...
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Communes in America: 1975–2000 is the final volume in Miller's trilogy on the history of American intentional communities. Providing a comprehensive survey of communities during the last quarter of the twentieth century, Miller offers a detailed study of their character, scope, and evolution.
Between 1975 and 2000, the American communal experience evolved dramatically in response to social and environmental challenges that confronted American society...
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What if women were safe and had full agency over their lives and bodies? What if all spaces were women's spaces? What if men's classically masculine traits like strength, risk-taking, and systematizing were useful, prosocial, and not toxic? What if men took a step back from their conquests and surrendered to the natural authority of women?
Gynarchy is a way of life that encompasses personal, political, and social relationships. It is the radical...
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Where did the state come from? Where is it going? This study in politogenesis shakes up the status quo. Worshiping Power cuts through inadequate theories of early state formation to offer a new analysis of the roles that kinship, religious practice, and commerce have played in stifling self-organization. Gelderloos's partisan approach to human social complexity is highly innovative, yet comprehensible to the layperson. A formidable assault on a social...
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"Ever wonder if there's a better way to live, work, and eat? You're not alone. Here is the story of five back-to-the-land movements, from 1840 to present day, when large numbers of utopian-minded people in the United States took action to establish small-scale farming as an alternative to mainstream agriculture. Then and now, it's the story of people striving to live freely and fight injustice, to make the food on their table a little healthier, and...
119) Tricking Power into Performing Acts of Love: How Tricksters Through History Have Changed the World
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Tricking Power into Performing Acts of Lovetells the history of tricksters who challenged the boundaries of doctrine to light the way to a more peaceful and playful society.
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Critics of American exceptionalism usually view it as a destructive force eroding the radical energies of social movements and aesthetic practices. In A Desire Called America, Christian P. Haines confronts a troubling paradox: Some of the most provocative political projects in the United States are remarkably invested in American exceptionalism. Riding a strange current of U.S. literature that draws on American exceptionalism only to overturn it in...
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