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by lukifer 1970 days ago
I'd be curious to know if he ran afoul of the verboten PC topics (race, gender, sexuality); considering the era in which he lived and worked, it seems not-unlikely that he'd be a "product of his time".

At the same time, he clearly held many political positions which were much more controversial in his era, but that the left-libertarian-leaning HN crowd wouldn't find objectionable, whatever their status in the 2021 Overton window: staunchly anti-war, anti-corporate [0], and openly pursuing a post-scarcity utopia [1].

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/285349.Grunch_of_Giants

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1321401.Utopia_or_Oblivi...