Odonianism
Odonianism is Ursula K. Le Guin's ideology based on the work of Laia Asieo Odo, in The Dispossessed and "The Day Before the Revolution".
Le Guin says of Odonianism:
- Odonianism is anarchism. Not the bomb-in-the-pocket stuff, which is terrorism, whatever name it tries to dignify itself with; not the social-Darwinist economic 'libertarianism' of the far right; but anarchism, as prefigured in early Taoist thought, and expounded by Shelley and Kropotkin, Goldman and Goodman. Anarchism's principal target is the authoritarian State (capitalist or socialist); its principal moral-practical theme is cooperation (solidarity, mutual aid). It is the most idealistic, and to me the most interesting, of all political theories.[1]
- ↑ Le Guin, The Wind's Twelve Quarters (introduction).