In theorizing an anarchic society, whether or not a particular aspect of social organization is disalienating becomes for LeGuin the key criterion for assessing and determining the human efficacy of, in particular: the organization of work the relationship between self, society, and nature and the distribution of both social responsibilities and resources. The concept central to this imagination of freedom and the 'good life' as expressed in her anarchic vision is that of disalienation, in the Marxist sense. For CalebIn The Dispossessed, Ursula LeGuin imagines a non-authoritarian society that privileges freedom and centers the individual's realization of her creative potentials in social context as the means to achieve the highest functioning, least repressive society.
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