the name of the island is interesting. After all, the French author "Étienne Cabet ... published [his] Voyage en Icarie (The Voyage to Icaria), a narrative blueprint of a communal Utopia, published ... in 1840. Cabet's utopian ideas influenced Karl Marx, who later abandoned them,[1] and other socialist thinkers." (from the WIKIPEDIA)
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 10:00 PM, Joseph Catron <[email protected]> wrote: >> Ikaria’s unusual past may explain its communal inclinations. The strong >> winds that buffet the island — mentioned in the “Iliad” — and the lack of >> natural harbors kept it outside the main shipping lanes for most of its >> history. This forced Ikaria to be self-sufficient. Then in the late 1940s, >> after the Greek Civil War, the government exiled thousands of Communists and >> radicals to the island. Nearly 40 percent of adults, many of them >> disillusioned with the high unemployment rate and the dwindling trickle of >> resources from Athens, still vote for the local Communist Party. > > > http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/magazine/the-island-where-people-forget-to-die.html > > -- > "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen > lytlað." > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Jim Devine / If you're going to support the lesser of two evils, at the very least you should know the nature of that evil. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
