[HN Gopher] Ursula Le Guin's "The Day Before the Revolution" [pdf]
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       Ursula Le Guin's "The Day Before the Revolution" [pdf]
        
       Author : chimpanzee
       Score  : 29 points
       Date   : 2024-05-15 18:49 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | chimpanzee wrote:
       | "[This short story] depicts the last day in the life of Laia
       | Asieo Odo, a revolutionary figure, shortly before the revolution
       | she helped inspire sweeps through her society. 'The Day Before
       | the Revolution' was written soon after The Dispossessed (1974);
       | it is described as a prologue to that novel, which is set in the
       | same planetary system. The idealized anarchist society depicted
       | in The Dispossessed is based on Odo's teachings, and is a
       | stateless, scientific, and largely anti-authoritarian society.
       | Odo's theory is put into practice after the revolution she
       | inspired, with the colonization of the moon Anarres and the
       | establishment of a society without private property. In The
       | Dispossessed, she is usually referred to as the historical figure
       | Odo, but in this story, told from her point of view, she is
       | called Laia. In her preface to 'The Day Before the Revolution',
       | Le Guin described the philosophy of Odo as anarchism, and
       | dedicated the story to anarchist theorist Paul Goodman."
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       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_Before_the_Revolution
        
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