“[This short story] depicts the last day in the life of Laia Asieo Odo, a revolutionary figure, shortly before the revolution she helped inspire sweeps through her society. ‘The Day Before the Revolution’ was written soon after The Dispossessed (1974); it is described as a prologue to that novel, which is set in the same planetary system. The idealized anarchist society depicted in The Dispossessed is based on Odo's teachings, and is a stateless, scientific, and largely anti-authoritarian society. Odo's theory is put into practice after the revolution she inspired, with the colonization of the moon Anarres and the establishment of a society without private property. In The Dispossessed, she is usually referred to as the historical figure Odo, but in this story, told from her point of view, she is called Laia. In her preface to ‘The Day Before the Revolution’, Le Guin described the philosophy of Odo as anarchism, and dedicated the story to anarchist theorist Paul Goodman.”
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