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.

  • Mardoniush [she/her]
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    The Commonweal series by Graydon Saunders is about people in an egalitarian revolutionary republic trying to survive in a hell world (time has been rewritten dozens of times (and in book 2 the locally rewrite deep time in order to obtain hardwood without transport), ducks weigh 3 tons, breath fire and are an important ecosystem restoration component) ruled by godlike Mage autocrats.

    The language is odd, but deliberately so as they're translations from an evolved language (there are no genders, but there is sex, so everyone is they unless referring to childbirth for instance. They also use the French revolutionary calendar.)

    Ken Macleod's Fall Revolution quartet is about Trots and Mutualists INNNNN SPAAAACCE against neolib fascists and later Libertarian tech bros gone horribly bad. Start with book 2.

    The Russians have the Solar Union books starting with Hard to be a god (which is about an observation scientist on an alien world seeing Fascism develop in a Feudal society, which his slightly dogmatic comrades think is impossible)