Nik Kroushl
What I expected: Stories of various attempts at utopian communities over the past several centuries, reportage on current utopian and communal living projects.
What I got: Chapters organized by ways that we organize society (homes/housing, childrearing, education, parenting and the nuclear family), a crash course in 20th century socialist and communist theory, examples in fiction ranging from Plato’s *Republic* to Ursula K LeGuin, examples in real-life ranging from monastic religious societies to modern-day eco-villages, a *Star Trek* themed call to radical hope, an impetus to work toward systemic change *and* individual life choice that upset the capitalist status quo fomented on inequality and exhaustion…
It makes me want to start a book club.
What I expected: Stories of various attempts at utopian communities over the past several centuries, reportage on current utopian and communal living projects.
What I got: Chapters organized by ways that we organize society (homes/housing, childrearing, education, parenting and the nuclear family), a crash course in 20th century socialist and communist theory, examples in fiction ranging from Plato’s *Republic* to Ursula K LeGuin, examples in real-life ranging from monastic religious societies to modern-day eco-villages, a *Star Trek* themed call to radical hope, an impetus to work toward systemic change *and* individual life choice that upset the capitalist status quo fomented on inequality and exhaustion…
It makes me want to start a book club.