Title: Thoughtful ruminations on travels in Marxist 'utopias'
Review: This book, published just as much of the established communist bloc was collapsing, gives a valuable insight in to the absurdities and hypocricies of Marxist regimes. The lack of freedom, the drab monotony, the deathly sapping of life these regimes have on their inhabitants are clearly delinated by Dalrymple who visits a range of countries where the Marxist experiment has been tried, and found severely wanting.Highlights include a visit to a North Korea department store: fascinating in its depiction of a socio-economic system that has long taken leave of basic human needs and occpuies a surreal hyper-reality well along the 'wilder shores of Marx'.Those brave pioneers of the Russian revolution, not to mention Marx himself, have a lot to answer for.
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