16 | Erik Olin Wright: Utopia and Social Science
What's Left of Philosophy
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Idorna Is So Enormous and Is It Totalitarian
Adorno says we can only think of utopio negatively. Yet that strikes me as a much richer way of relating to political strategy. I don't know if we should trust our immediate intuitions about what a desirable society looks like. But there justesuch a contrast between these two ways of thinking about utopia, which is one whit's a total ban on envisioning what it might look like. Or, oh, if you do invision it, it's going to end up being totalitarian.
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