The documentary film Anarchism in America, which features interviews with Karl Hess and Murray Bookchin among others, is advertised as containing footage of sf author Ursula Le Guin as well. But a number of viewers have reported, with disappointment, that Le Guin is nowhere to be found.
I’m not so sure. In track 3, titled “International Symposium on Anarchism,” there’s a frustratingly brief clip of an unidentified woman saying: “I think anarchism to most people does mean bomb-throwing, at first. But they don’t know that it’s an idea at all, and a whole political philosophy, and a moral philosophy.”
Is that Le Guin? I think it might be. (Even if so, admittedly an insufficient basis for including her name in puffery for the film. Still, it’s an excellent film, worth a watch.)
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But Ursula LeGuin and Murray Bookchin are those evil socialist anarchists that want to abolish wage labor! How can a self-respecting libertarian even deign to mention their hated names!?
Roderick,
Yep, that’s LeGuin. I didn’t realize it was her until after I watched the documentary and then saw that she was listed on the cover.
P. S. It seems Anonymous2 has created for you a “teachable moment.”
Anonymous2′s comment sounds tongue in cheek to me.
One example that comes to mind of another movie that did this sort of thing is Brian Flemming’s documentary “The God Who Wasn’t There” — some of the publicity gave the impression that Richard Dawkins was in the film, but it turns out he appears in a commentary track, not the film itself.
Le Guin’s mother, Theodora Kroeber, was also an anthropologist and studied native folktale traditions.
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- Gail N.
Gail,
It’s actually a short story – it was published in LeGuin’s collection, “The Wind’s Twelve Quarters”.