Anyone have more books with socialist/anarchist/leftist themes? I don't really like reading theory, I get a much better connection when reading a good story about the struggle between man and the capitalist society.
So far I've read:
The Jungle (sucks)
The Gambler
The Conspiracy
Antoine Bloye
The Grapes of Wrath
1984 (sucks)
Brave New World
Homo Zapiens
I'm also looking at reading Sartre, PKD, and Nietzsche.
I also forget to mention I've read Kafka's major short stories and The Trial.
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The Culture series is pretty good (start with Player of Games). China Mieville also wrote a historical fiction on the October Revolution which is apparently very good.
Also you really need to read theory fam
Sucks for you. Here is something the editor of Bunkermag wrote.
It's not that I don't read theory it's that I like reading fiction and I like fiction that explores socialist themes.
I've never heard of this but it sounds just like what I was looking for. Do you know of any more contemporary books?
The Culture Series seems interesting and I had heard of October before but had forgotten it.
In dubious battle
Germinal
You suck.
I read a review of In Dubiou Battle and the reviewer made the argument that it was an anti-communist text. They argue that Steinbeck was a New Deal "socialist" who disliked the communists and fascists equally, much like the book It Can't Happen Here (which really sucked).