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Skinner isn't interested in getting a utopia through political methods. "Some people have the idea that everything must be related to politics. I believe the political method is a poor way to get anything done. In fact, I am so uninterested in politics that you might call me a one man non-political action committee...
...years spent on English Literature were not wasted. Skinner has published many magazine articles and books. The most popular was his science-fiction type novel called Walden II, which describes a utopia run by science. "I have done a lot of research on American utopias, and I have found that they can be very valuable in testing theories...
...Guests of Norfolk, voluntary and involuntary," he began, "a free national health service will not make medical services better, but worse. The neurotics and malingerers will swamp our doctors and make it impossible for them to tend the really sick. I have been an unwilling native in a socialist Utopia for some time, and I know it will not work . . . This talk of free service is just political camouflage...
...ideal of Soviet law is no law at all: this must wait, however, for the evolution of a communist utopia. For the present, Russian jurists must content themselves with a practical, concrete body of law. The definition of the term "law" in the 1949 Russian textbook on "Theory of the State and Law," in remarkably similar to Stuchka's idea of bourgeois law, which tends to the benefit of the ruling class...
Shadows Move Among Them, by Edgar Mittelhölzer. Uninhibited high jinks about a singularly unorthodox missionary in British Guiana, somewhat befogged by the suggestion that the high jinks add up to ethical Utopia (TIME, Sept...