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.

  • star_wraith [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    The Dispossessed is to me a must-read if you are into leftist fiction. Her description of a how the fictional anarchist* society operates made me cry a little it was so beautiful. Makes you all the more motivated to try and build something like it.

    *-LeGuin's characters and the author herself exclusively refer to the society of Anarres as "anarchist" but functionally it's indistinguishable from communism. It's a stateless, classless, moneyless society. So it works for everyone on the left.