What's some essential Leftypol fiction?

Fredy & Lorraine Perlman - Letters of Insurgents
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Ursula K. Le Guin - The Dispossesed
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Robert Anton Wilson & Robert Shea - The Illuminatus Trilogy
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wew, I read the first one. never picked up the rest though

Everybody should read Isaac Asimov's Foundation series, but especially the later stuff he wrote in the eighties. He wrote this storyline that includes a planet that is entirely psychically interconnected to the point where everybody is literally at one with nature. Compare it with the planet he wrote in the same series that's essentially a right-libertarian/ancap paradise where humans have been genetically engineered to be asexual in the sense of self-reproduction so that nobody has to interact with anyone else. The people on this planet live alone and own vast tracts of land and only interact via video chat communication.

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irmtraud morgner was a GDR author who wrote feminist experimental fiction whose 'main' work the life of trobadora beatrice has been translated into english. a v short piece by her is available of libgen in the anthology sisterhood is global.
joseph mcelroy's women and men borrows heavily from marx and veblen, amongst others, in stitching together the worlds around his two main characters. Chile features heavily in W&M, so there's Pablo Neruda too but thats poetry.
Ian Banks's Culture series is basically luxury space communism

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First is great, second is worth it for the post-revolutionary politics if you can stomach the interpersonal drama and endless descriptions of plants and rocks.
Third book is skippable.

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell.

Or just watch the movie.

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Fiction is indispensable. To create a better world, you must be able to imagine one.

Seconding The Dispossessed for this reason. It's one of my favorite books. Number one slot though is definitely Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck.

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I love Blood Meridian, but it's not really particularly leftist beyond a general abstract condemnation of imperialism.

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The Dispossessed by le Guin. Also Stanislaw Lem.

Yes! Apparently I am not the only one who can see the basic communist ideas there and an optimistic idea how the next great crisis could unfold.

It's basically Settlers in novel form dude

Grapes of Wrath is liberal propagande written by a literal libshit.

The first is about 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧[spoiler]Belgians[/spoilers]🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 and imperialism. Bretty gud.
Second is one rebel recommended in one of his long lost videos. Its a narrative about a group of painters going through the hells of capitalism and one of them trying to show the others the light of socialism. I like the idea of the narrative laying out arguments for socialism and show casing their need. There were some sad moments for me.

dun goof the spoilers and the order of images sorry

First is basically "Libertarian Socialism, The Book", with a great take on FALC as well. Note that Hogan has drifted back and forth between scientific commie and mystical lolbert throughout his career, so the ideology in any one of his books has to be taken on an individual basis.

Second is the best handbook on lone wolf terrorism disguised as a novel I've read. On the subject of Russell, his anthology The Great Explosion, particularly And Then There Were None, greatly inspired Voyage from Yesteryear, though without the tech angle and focusing primarily on libsoc.

Third is a satirical takedown of American international meddling in all its incompetent glory, written by a former US diplomatic staffer.

Only read the first one, descends into soap operatics, the neo-anprim environmentalist death cult are particularly cringey.

On a closely related note, Legend of the Galactic Heroes.

His stuff is fun, but kind of silly and fanboyish, and clearly written without a significant understanding of technology or its actual implications.

ommigod i love capitalism now

Yeah I think that's part of the reason I didn't continue on to the second. But you've got me intrigued enough to put it back on the list

tressell is great. ken loach's film riff-raff is directly influenced by it & ricky tomlinson one of loach's regulars is clearly a fan too. brendan behan whose 2 books should also be recommended here also talks about it in borstal boy: