Not to go off on a tangent, but I’d say it’s more utopian than critical of utopia—I don’t think we can require utopias to be perfect to deserve the name, and Anarres is pretty (perhaps unrealistically) good, with radical (though not complete) changes in human nature for the better.
Not to go off on a tangent, but I’d say it’s more utopian than critical of utopia—I don’t think we can require utopias to be perfect to deserve the name, and Anarres is pretty (perhaps unrealistically) good, with radical (though not complete) changes in human nature for the better.