For communist writers, a speculative evolution of the ants from an individualistic species in the past to a communist one in the present was a welcome development, while others told a similar (hi)story taking a contrary view. ![]() ![]() Depending on the perspective, such fictional ant societies could be seen as a utopia and as its opposite. Ant colonies were seen as alternate societies endowed with particular societal features: total surrender of personality, work efficiency, and full equality, but also militarism, reluctance to innovate, and complete absence of any meaningful sentiment among their members. ![]() With socialist and communist ideologies on the rise from the 19th century onwards, fiction increasingly presented views on ants not as disguised humans in a kind of scientifically-based modern allegory, but as alternate intelligent beings on Earth. These kinds of society, where each member seemed to have relinquished its whole individuality for the sake of the colony, could be understood as model for a truly collectivist order. ![]() With the progress of Myrmecology, the complexity of ant societies became increasingly known. nÂș 5 - diciembre 2015, Ants have been for centuries main characters in the Aesopian fable.
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