• muddi [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    9 months ago

    What “book” are they talking about lol, what modern communist writes utopian apologia or fantasy?

    (not the genre of fantasy, I meant like, fantasizing about communism as a dream rather than a real historical struggle)

    Autobiographies like Guevara’s are based on actual historical realities

    The Dispossessed comes to mind, and the subtitle is An Ambiguous Utopia

    They’re definitely not talking about the magic system in Das Kapital right??

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        9 months ago

        lol sorry by fantasy I didn’t mean the genre or setting, but like Mary Sue type writing where communism wins just because the writer wants it to, bad choice of words there.

        I’m trying to write some communist fantasy myself! I think leftist writers put in a lot of effort to understand the history and be realistic about it. I’ve never seen anyone just champion communism because it sounds nifty