Well, I don't think that Le Guin in The Dispossessed is actually presenting her own analysis or utopia. That would not be consistent with the novel or with her work as a whole, which provides a whole constellation of different possible societies in a kind of grand experiment meant, I think, to illuminate the questions we are grappling with in this world, not to say what is best or truest. Consider that in The Dispossessed the anarchist society has adapted itself to survival in very harsh conditions--I think Le Guin sees the social structure they form as not only anarchist but also adapted to the conditions. In their world, they *have* to have a strongly-developed hive mind to survive. I think Le Guin is approaching this world as a thought experiment that combines anarchist principles with a barren wasteland, and that the thought experiment would unfold differently on a warm wet planet or moon.
Pride is funny. Somebody gets a ton of slaves to make an enormous structure so he will be "immortal." Sure, you can see it from handfuls of miles away, sure, it will last thousands of years, but to think this gets you closer to immortality or eternity is pretty silly, like thinking if you fly far enough into space you will get closer to the edge of the universe. And this kind of pride has a lot to with religion, the state--you know, things that aren't anarchy. Which is pretty shitty.
With that said, there's probably another kind of pride, or a few kinds. For example, one kind of pride is a lack of shame. Which is pretty awesome. Another is going somewhere or doing something and then looking and thinking/saying "Woah, look at that." Which is pretty whatever.
