Utopianism

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• SOURCE: The Baffler
  4/18/2022
  

  The Lost Utopian Communes of the Midwest

  by Evan Malmgren

  "Inland America is pocked with the unmarked graves of communitarian utopias—primitive socialist and communist experiments—that tried to rebuild the world on what was assumed to be virgin soil."

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Review of Books
  11/28/2021
  

  Utopia’s Settler Colonialism Problem

  by Jessica Namakkal

  The commune movements of the 1960s counterculture were organized around a number of pernicious assumptions about indigenous people and the prerogatives of whites to settle and reorganize land. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  7/2/2021
  

  The Strange, Sad Death of America’s Political Imagination

  by Daniel Immerwahr

  What happened to big-thinking utopianism as a response to national problems? 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  6/15/2021
  

  How to Think Like a Utopian

  The Dutch macrohistorian says that utopian thinking – that doesn't accept the present as necessary or permanent – is very different from fatalism because it ideally spurs action.