I got exposed to this by Shaun's Palestine video. It's resonated with me ever since. Perfect addition to the thread.
If anyone wants a synopsis and short discussion it's at 58:04 here: https://youtu.be/3xottY-7m3k?t=3483
Full text here (.pdf): https://files.libcom.org/files/ursula-k-le-guin-the-ones-who-walk-away-from-omelas.pdf
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
I dunno me personally but I can never deal with handling talking to liberals about this one. They never seem to get the idea that the violence is not inevitable
Violence towards the child, or the violence to save the child?
I thought it was going to be too radical for a group (of liberals) but apparently not
They're very good at compartmentalizing. But it can lead to some good radical discussions.
Kafka's Before the Law and In the Penal Colony I really like.
i mean, not really. they're more meditations on the unfairness and barbarity of "law and order", respectively.
Look up Cory Doctrow https://craphound.com/category/stories/
Should be all of his stories are to be found on his website in full. They used to be at least. I could pick one for you but a few minutes nosing around will find you something good.
I remember "Bears Discover Fire" by Terry Bisson being a good one.
Omelas is the quintessential leftist short story, but if you want to consider some others:
Smokestacks Like the Arms of Gods was good.
I also liked Are We Not Men and have previously posted The Daydreamer by Proxy.
Orientation is a dark comedy corporate satire that I thought was pretty amusing.
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.
