"Give-and-Take Utopia"
| Title | "Give-and-Take Utopia" |
| Year for Search | 1969 |
| Authors | Brien, Alan(1925-2008) |
| Secondary Title | New Statesman |
| Volume / Edition | 78.2006 |
| Pagination | 243-44 |
| Date Published | August 22, 1969 |
| Keywords | English author, Male author |
| Annotation | A personal view of eutopia, which he calls a "half-way utopia" and a "more-or-less Merry England". It will be planned but not predictable, permissive but not lawless, safe but not dull, and patriotic but not racist. Among other things, there will be a limit on income, and everyone must work. |
| Author Note | The author (1925-2008) was a journalist but is best-known for his novel Lenin. London: Secker & Warburg, 1987. |
| Full Text | 1969 Brien, Alan (1925-2008). “Give-and-Take Utopia.” New Statesman 78.2006 (August 22, 1969): 243-44. A personal view of eutopia, which he calls a “half-way utopia” and a “more-or-less Merry England”. It will be planned but not predictable, permissive but not lawless, safe but not dull, and patriotic but not racist. Among other things, there will be a limit on income, and everyone must work. The author was a journalist but is best-known for his novel Lenin. London: Secker & Warburg, 1987. |
