Said this somewhere else, but gonna always recommend Ursula Le Guin’s The Dispossessed to any leftist looking to read probably the best anarchist sci-fi out there
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.
Said this somewhere else, but gonna always recommend Ursula Le Guin’s The Dispossessed to any leftist looking to read probably the best anarchist sci-fi out there
Also Takiji Kobayashi’s The Crab Cannery Ship if you want some good intense proletarian stories
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.