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quoted We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

Yevgeny Zamyatin: We (Hardcover, 1972, Viking Press)

We is set in the future. D-503, a spacecraft engineer, lives in the One State, …

Harmful literature is more useful than useful literature, for it is antientropic, it is a means of combating calcification, . . . It is utopian, absured. . . . It is right 150 years later.

— We by  (Page x)

I couldn't have said it better myself.