laundry0099@bookwyrm.social hat Everyday Utopia von Kristen Rogheh Ghodsee besprochen
Great overview, but lacks depth
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I feel like if someone who had never seen a leftbook meme in their lives were to read this book it would be very eye opening for them. Unfortunately (?) I have already been looking at memes about urban planning and the evils of capitalism for well over a decade, so there was not really any new information in this book for me except for a few fun historical facts here and there.
Once again, I find myself frustrated by authors who spend a great deal of time bemoaning how terrible the state of the world is and very little time talking about how to actually achieve any alternative.
Most of the examples in this book aren’t indigenous, pre-capitalist societies like I would expect. Instead, most of the examples are from relatively modern Western society. Many of them are just religious sects and most of them were either …
I feel like if someone who had never seen a leftbook meme in their lives were to read this book it would be very eye opening for them. Unfortunately (?) I have already been looking at memes about urban planning and the evils of capitalism for well over a decade, so there was not really any new information in this book for me except for a few fun historical facts here and there.
Once again, I find myself frustrated by authors who spend a great deal of time bemoaning how terrible the state of the world is and very little time talking about how to actually achieve any alternative.
Most of the examples in this book aren’t indigenous, pre-capitalist societies like I would expect. Instead, most of the examples are from relatively modern Western society. Many of them are just religious sects and most of them were either short-lived or are not scalable to society as a whole.
This book had been on my radar for a while, so I’m glad I read it, but it was honestly pretty disappointing.