Oh do some Saki! He was in no way a communist but definitely subversive. Here’s what I wrote about him somewhere else:

Check out a writer called Saki. He was a queer English man who was killed in WWI and wrote some delicious short stories.

I was lucky to have a jr high teacher who had us read one of his stories, Sredni Vashtar, and that got me reading his other stories. It’s all subversive stuff, very fun. The Chronicles of Clovis and Beasts and Super-Beasts have some great stories.