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Do you think the fundamental problem lies within the idea of utopia?
by justaburner 4y ago
Do you think the fundamental problem lies within the idea of utopia?
- sam_goody 4y agoI highly recommend Jan Valtin's book, recently on HN: https://thebaffler.com/latest/unflinching-prisoners-of-a-grandiose-make-believe-asher https://thebaffler.com/latest/unflinching-prisoners-of-a-gra... It is the biography of German Communist in WWII. To quote from the review "few books have ever done a finer or more honest job of describing the appeal and disappointments of ideology. "