can't describe my request any better than this. sorrry if it's too vague. books that dismantle your liberal understanding of the world. can be a historical work of fiction, doesn't really matter. just something that'll leave a mark on you ig

  • CrawlMarks [he/him]
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    So, I can think of two works specifically. And I have an idea of a third.

    Thin air. It is a cyberpunk military fiction book. The inciting probelms are 1. Struggling to pay rent. 2. Disability accommodation 3.toxic masculinity. The author is British and went on to be a terf though his suspicious self loathing of masculinity. However that and market forces were in his good period and hard boiled action works about how capitlaism fucks stuff up.

    Iron clad or Ogre by Adrian Tchaikovsky. They are both fun adventure stores about class struggle. Orge is more fleshed out and it specifically deals with a revolution being coopted. The twist at the end of that one actually hit me in the guts.

    Then finally I don't know how to shape the idea. Any super hero book. Batman's super power is being rich. Spider man doesn't have to pay rent. And the only thing that holds him back from saving more people is having to have a day job. Technically any story where it isn't about asset accumulation has the potentially for a leftist reading but I haven't worked that out.

    Oh, and The Time Wanderers. It is a soviet mystery sci fi novel in the far future. It is about the optimism and seeing a beautiful future ahead of you and the sadness of knowing you won't get to see it but your descendants will. It hits hard given how things have gone.