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Shevek
A society without government
Le Guin's lived anarchist commune.
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The physicist protagonist of Le Guin's novel, whose anarchist moon-society Anarres is fiction's most carefully imagined working model of stateless communism — including its strains.
social
Egalitarian, communal, gender-equal by design.
economic
No money, no property — voluntary labour and shared abundance.
governance
A functioning stateless society organised by free association.
Notable for
- Protagonist of 'The Dispossessed'
- Anarres, an anarchist society
- 'An ambiguous utopia'
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