And the rest of the Hainish Cycle is damn good too! It's not as in-your-face leftist, but still really good. There's a very anti-colonial book, there's a book set on a world where everyone is nonbinary, there's a book about how slavery is bad (that's also blatantly feminist, because even once the slaves get their freedom, the female ex-slaves are still very oppressed, and that's bad), there's a book about a guy with such advanced science compared to the world he's dropped into that he's basically a demigod/epic hero of a fantasy story, and a couple more which defy easy explanation. Basically, Ursula K LeGuin is awesome!
I agree. It doesn't literally have people discussing leftist philosophy while living in an anarchist commune, but it very clearly says colonialism is not good, which is a very leftist position.
And the rest of the Hainish Cycle is damn good too! It's not as in-your-face leftist, but still really good. There's a very anti-colonial book, there's a book set on a world where everyone is nonbinary, there's a book about how slavery is bad (that's also blatantly feminist, because even once the slaves get their freedom, the female ex-slaves are still very oppressed, and that's bad), there's a book about a guy with such advanced science compared to the world he's dropped into that he's basically a demigod/epic hero of a fantasy story, and a couple more which defy easy explanation. Basically, Ursula K LeGuin is awesome!
I would say that The Word for World is Forest is pretty leftist, in an environmentalist and anti-war sort of way
I agree. It doesn't literally have people discussing leftist philosophy while living in an anarchist commune, but it very clearly says colonialism is not good, which is a very leftist position.