{"id":94849,"date":"2025-08-13T02:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T06:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=94849"},"modified":"2025-03-25T22:03:33","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T02:03:33","slug":"the-dispossessed-state-happens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2025\/08\/13\/the-dispossessed-state-happens\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>The Dispossessed<\/em>: State Happens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PBoVS8pMS-k?si=qi_qwcs9KTVbB8-j\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Feral Historian<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 21 Mar 2025<\/p>\n<p>Ursula K. le Guin&#8217;s <em>The Dispossessed<\/em> is one of the most in-depth examinations of how a large anarchist society might function, addressing both the problems it solves and those it creates for itself. It&#8217;s a must-read for anyone interested in the communist-leaning variants of anarchism in particular.<\/p>\n<p>00:00 Intro<br \/>\n01:58 Anarres is not an Island<br \/>\n04:45 Shevek goes to Urras<br \/>\n07:00 Abolition of Property<br \/>\n08:30 Social Pressures and Pravic<br \/>\n12:30 Necessity and Ossification<br \/>\n14:45 Necessity of Conflict<br \/>\n15:45 Shevek&#8217;s Wild Ride<\/p>\n<p>This video is in part a companion to this one &mdash; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fzp4Y4OamgY\" target=\"_blank\">Cloak of Anarchy : Gradations of Stat&#8230;<\/a> from a few weeks ago. The original cut of that one had a brief mention of a couple details from <em>The Dispossessed<\/em>, but it really needed its own video. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feral Historian Published 21 Mar 2025 Ursula K. le Guin&#8217;s The Dispossessed is one of the most in-depth examinations of how a large anarchist society might function, addressing both the problems it solves and those it creates for itself. It&#8217;s a must-read for anyone interested in the communist-leaning variants of anarchism in particular. 00:00 Intro [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,25,53],"tags":[756,262,1593,400,139,85],"class_list":["post-94849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-economics","category-politics","tag-anarchy","tag-culture","tag-feralhistorian","tag-language","tag-psychology","tag-sf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-oFP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94850,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94849\/revisions\/94850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}