Red Library: New Worlds
In this issue’s Red Library, we delve into today’s Utopias, ranging from children’s communes to Amazon distribution centres, from asteroid mining to menstrual extractors.
Inside operating room of the Metsamor Nuclear Power Plant, 24 March 2005 in Metsamor, Armenia. (Photo by Justyna Mielnikiewicz / Getty Images.)
In her wonderful 2017 pamphlet Communism for Kids, the German writer Bini Adamczak imagines children breaking with capitalism and trying out various utopias instead. In an afterword, she makes clear what utopias she is referring to; the dead utopias of state socialism, the communitarian utopias of anarchism, the techno-utopias of ‘fully automated luxury communism’, where […]
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