Utopia, Then and Now

The withering away of the state, or the abolition of it?

Save Earth Now (poster designed in the 1960s by Hapshash and the Coloured Coat)

I was fortunate to recently make contact with a Milwaukee librarian and scholar of labor history, who generously shared information he’d uncovered on my grandmother Josephine Nordstrand.

Josephine was born at home in Brooklyn. Her mother, Raïssa, was of the generation of idea…