From Distributive Passions
The Distributive Passions: A Chronicle of the First Harmonian Revolution is the history of an alternate Earth, one where, at various key moments, liberty got just a bit more play than in our own world, with a range of results, not all of them positive. The curtain rises on 2005, on the verge of that year's Intergalactic Encuentro, a meeting of radical and alternative organizations in the Marshall Islands, and the pressing issues are in many ways familiar: rising sea levels, a war on terrorism, sectional and factional conflicts within many nation states, concerns about energy supplies and the sustainability of the global economy. The players are, of course, not entirely those we might expect. It was the Fourierists, not the Marxists, who led the Russian Revolution. The American Civil War led to greater decentralization in the Federated States and Territories of America. Etzlertech, the offspring of 19th century utopian socialist experiments, has functioned as something of a joker in the technological deck.
And the seas are turning to lemonade, or something like it, in partial fulfillment and partial defiance of a number of Fourierist predictions. Things are getting strange...
- The Libertarian Labyrinth - history and source material, the point of departure for The Distributive Passions
- The Distributive Passions blog site
- The Distributive Passions gallery site
- In the Libertarian Labyrinth blog — Shawn P. Wilbur
- The Alliance of the Libertarian Left - the real-life LLAMA
