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.