I'm writing a currently genre ambiguous Sci-Fi/lovecraft/spaceopera/superhero novel that doesn't outright declare everyone is openly is Maoist/Anarchist/Stalinist/Etc., (the alien characters won't have human etymology for their ideologies) and maybe it's not actually all that political on the surface anyways, but any tips for slipping in vegan and leftist dog-whistles?

  • bombshell [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    And after you let the flowers bloom you arrest the right-wingers who foolishly revealed themselves and sentence them to hard labor for 20 years

    Oh Mao, you were such a clever bastard when you wanted to be

      • bombshell [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        It was, 100%. He knew there were right-wingers hiding in the Party and elsewhere. Finding them was the problem, they were deeply closeted. But allowing them to criticize the Party "to help improve it" would certainly get them to out themselves. They couldn't resist. They identified themselves, Mao didn't have to do anything but note names. Then after a few months, he brought the hammer down. BAM, off to the labor camps. None of them were released until after Mao died.