We often talk about theory and quote philosophers, economists, and other academics. Let's share some quotes from works of fiction that are relevant to Leftism. I'll start:
Man had been content to live in ease and delight upon the labours of his fellow-man, had taken Necessity as his watch-word and excuse, and in the fullness of time Necessity had come home to him.
— H.G. Wells, *The Time Machine*
Humanity can finally stop it's rampant expansionism and think, for we as a species need to develop socially if we are to avoid destruction and face the future with spirit.
Peter F Hamilton - The Naked God
But you are communists
"but aren't you communists?"
I bet your daddy didn't have a lot of nice things to say about us. The truth is we love communism, we love our society, but we have to trade if we are to maintain our society. Similarly we don't stop our children from leaving and finding their own way. If they stay there that's fine, if they come back and decide to change things that is fine as well. But we will never say to our people.that you were wrong.
Peter F Hamilton - The Neutronian Alchemist
Probably my favourite,
«Le seul moyen d'affronter un monde sans liberté est de devenir si absolument libre qu'on fasse de sa propre existence un acte de révolt.»
Translated into English sounds like:
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."
— Albert Camus, L'Homme Révolté
Another I like,
"In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine." — Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Comes from a passage analysing Nietzsche's eternal recurrence, Robespierre, and the French revolution.
>When a philosopher suggests these days that he is not a skeptic - I hope this is clear from the description just given of the objective spirit - everybody is annoyed. One begins to look at him apprehensively, one would like to ask, to ask so much - Indeed, among timid listeners, of whom there are legions now, he is henceforth considered dangerous. It is as if at his rejection of skepticism they heard some evil, menacing rumbling in the distance, as if a new explosive were being tried somewhere, a dynamite of the spirit, perhaps a newly discovered Russian nihiline, a pessimism bonae voluntatis that does not merely say No, want No, but - horrible thought! - does No.
-Friedrich "Dynamite" Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, s. 208
Actually, the first one isn't fiction…forgive me…
‘In this moment, I am euphoric. Not because of any phony god’s blessing. But because, I am enlightened by my intelligence.’ - Aalewis
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