The words induced me to turn towards myself. I learned that the possessions most esteemed by your fellow-creatures were, high and unsullied descent united with riches. A man might be respected with only one of these advantages; but, without either, he was considered, except in very rare instances, as a vagabond and a slave, doomed to waste his powers for the profits of the chosen few!
-Frankenstein (1831)
For the purpose of rebutting chuds on their history, Western examples are more useful.
If you provided a Soviet sci-fi example they’d probably discount it as “well of course the commies were always woke”.
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