Look, while I know we have theory to read. I kinda want to start reading some more fictional stories. What would you lot say are the left wing versions of both Atlas Shrugged and the T****r Diaries?
Both books (ESPECIALLY the latter) are just objectively terrible stories that are just mental masturbation at best where you self-insert as the Mary Sue protagonist and just GG ez everything. Surely the left can write something better.
Please don't tell me the closest we have are YA novels.
In addition to Vonnegut I'd also recommend George Saunders. Specifically his short story collections - In Persuasion Nation is his best. He also wrote an Israel/Palestine allegory novella called The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil.
He recently wrote one of his best stories called Ghoul, if you're a podcast person you can hear him read it on the New Yorker "The Writer's Voice" podcast, or you can read it in the link above.
He writes a lot about exploitation of workers, degradation of the struggling, the savagery of our world, the ratcheting up of what is asked if the desperate - except, like Vonnegut, he's really funny. He's simultaneously more serious and funny than Vonnegut I'd say. And angrier.