But the collectivism is of a recognizable type, one that threatens every society in all times. Written in 1921 by the Russian revolutionary Yevgeny Zamyatin, this story of the thirtieth century is set in the One State, a society where all live for the collective good and individual freedom does not exist.Īlthough fiction, it is a story informed by the war communism of the Soviet Union, and was of course completely banned in Russia. Dick, Ayn Rand ( Anthem), and Stanislaw Lem, We is a classic of dystopian science fiction ripe for rediscovery. ” -George OrwellĪn inspiration for George Orwell’s 1984 and a precursor to the work of Philip K. “ intuitive grasp of the irrational side of totalitarianism - human sacrifice, cruelty as an end in itself - makes superior to Huxley’s.
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