Bolo’bolo
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P.M. Bolo’bolo 1983

What are your thoughts on Bolo’bolo? Is it well known in your circles?

To me, it’s one my literary and theoretical bases that I keep coming back to. Sometimes just to skim trough it and dream :D I see enourmous potential there.

While I know quite a few people that know the book - or at least of it -, it feels like it doesn’t get the attention it deserves.

  • WuxinGoat@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I also think that bolo’bolo should be more widely read. It’s really well written and really thinks through how an alternative society could work, it often feels like an Ursula Le Guin book to me. It’s critique of both capitalism and state communism as the Work Machine is pretty great.

    I think its spot on about the size of community that’s best for humans (a few hundred), and I like that each bolo is based around some guiding principles, I often think that’s important for a community to stick together.

    It’s obviously not perfect or an exact blueprint but its great food for thought and I wish other plans for alternate societies were worked out in engaging detail like bolo’bolo

    • awaOPEnglish
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      2 years ago

      P.M. has also written several novels! I not sure whether any were or are being translated.

      For those who speak German: I really enjoyed the ‘Die große Fälschung’-series.