outofrange reviewed Pirate Utopias by Peter Lamborn Wilson
Review of 'Pirate Utopias' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
As a fairly historically ignorant person I didn't have the context to grok a lot of the analysis of political structures and relationships in this work, and had a hard time seeing the "utopia" in a lot of it. Luckily the other subject, pirates, holds the attention well! This is the only historical writing I've seen that attempts to sympathetically picture a society that left none of its own history, and is usually portrayed by the writings of their enemies and victims. There are some good historical stories related - fuel for the imagination of pirate life, and interesting insights about the role of religion and anarchy in it.