{"id":534,"date":"2005-10-18T04:37:31","date_gmt":"2005-10-18T09:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=534"},"modified":"2009-03-22T05:59:19","modified_gmt":"2009-03-22T10:59:19","slug":"science-fiction-and-socialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2005\/10\/18\/science-fiction-and-socialism\/","title":{"rendered":"Science fiction and socialism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sff.net\/people\/diccon\/MIKE.HTM\">More evidence<\/a> socialism in science fiction was present long before Ken MacLeod and China Mi&eacute;ville:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"cite\"><p>\nMICHELISM  (&#8220;MISH-el-ism&#8221;)  At the Third Eastern in October 1937, Don Wollheim read a speech written by John Michel, which denounced the &#8220;Gernsback Delusion&#8221; and declared that stf had made idealists and dreamers of fans, since it is the best form of escape literature ever invented.  Since we cannot escape from the world, science-fiction has failed in not facing the realities being fought out in Madrid and Shanghai [and later in other locations we&#8217;ll leave you to fill in as events unprogress] and in the battles between reaction and progressive forces at home and abroad.  &#8220;THEREFORE: Be it moved that this, the Third Eastern Science Fiction Convention, shall place itself on record as opposing all forces leading to barbarism, the advancement of pseudo-sciences and militaristic ideologies [referring to the racist notions of Naziism], and shall further resolve that science-fiction should by nature stand for all forces working for a more unified world, a more Utopian existence, the application of science to human happiness, and a saner outlook on life.&#8221;  Hot debate followed and the motion was defeated 12 to 8 (the 8 being the Futurians, voting en bloc).\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nFrom <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sff.net\/people\/diccon\/CYINDEX.HTM\">Fancyclopedia II<\/a>, first published in 1959, a large encyclopedia of science fiction fandom and fanspeak. You&#8217;ll have to scroll down a bit to find this, as there are no links to the individual entries. Found thanks to mr rasfw, James Nicoll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More evidence socialism in science fiction was present long before Ken MacLeod and China Mi&eacute;ville: MICHELISM (&#8220;MISH-el-ism&#8221;) At the Third Eastern in October 1937, Don Wollheim read a speech written by John Michel, which denounced the &#8220;Gernsback Delusion&#8221; and declared that stf had made idealists and dreamers of fans, since it is the best form [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,20],"tags":[332,2441,2440],"class_list":["post-534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-fiction","category-socialism","tag-michelism","tag-science-fiction","tag-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":537,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions\/537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}