James Holden: Anarcho-Syndicalist. Hates authority figures, is a staunch proponent of illegalism, organizes his crew into a sort of democratic worker co-op, is naive but not entirely to a fault and a wholesome idealist.
Alex Kamal: Just wants to grill.
Bobby Draper: Part of a soviet-esque military vanguard, a true committed revolutionary.
Naomi Nagata: While the OPA is draped in anarchist aesthetics in the text they also share a semblance to Maoist third worldist and anti-colonial movements.
Amos Burton: Crust punk anarchist, kicks in reactionaries' skulls and defends sex workers and his lgbt comrades claims to be unconcerned with "politics" but would definitely fall on the right side of a revolution.
The first couple seasons are a bit rough around the edges but it's worth sticking it out. And Holden has some great character development through the series.
His being a freedom-of-information crusader in practice ending up an unintentional walking catastrophe is pretty interesting as a central character flaw
IIRC this is only really visited by the show in its first season. They outright ignored the political "twist" of the fourth book and made it a much more straightforward, triumphant story of humans coming together.
Osama Bin Laden
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If only because he literally does 9/11 x 1,000,000 to earth and it's up for debate if they deserved it
He's not based enough to be Osama
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Earth didn't deserve the Bombardment, at least not the way Marcos did it. A targeted strike on their stealth detection tech or even on certain areas of Luna/Earth would've made sense, but not just yeeting a bunch of asteroids at the planet randomly. I think it's important to keep in mind that, for all of the Belt's plight, Earth had just as many innocent people who were actively being fucked by the status quo. I always thought Ashford (at least in the show -- I haven't read the entire book series quite yet) had the correct take on how the Belters should seek better conditions from Earth/Mars.
I thought Ashford was a poorly-fleshed out dickhead of a character in the books, one of the few who are way better in the show
I really don't know where you get this impression. In the books he's a straightforward incompetent, insane shithead and villain while the show gave him much-needed depth and moral ambiguity.
Inaros talks of independence but only got his position as a stooge of the Martian deep state. He's either an apolitical narcisist or an fascist imitation of 'inner' military ideology.
