So difficult to find sympathetic fiction online. Currently looking at a book called The Sympathizer by a Vietnamese author about a pro-Vietnamese double agent living in Amerika, seems interesting. Every other search result is anti-communist piss splattered over pages and sold as “gripping, realistic, startlingly accurate”.
Even if it’s bad writing or whatever, I’m curious if any of y’all know some explicitly or implicitly communist fiction worth checking out.
Speaking of comics, I heard that “Immortal Hulk” is interesting (anti-capitalist, pro-revolution), which is very weird for a Marvel property. (I haven’t read it yet, so it might have a shit ending)
I absolutely loved Immortal Hulk and recommend it. It’s more eco-socialist than anything, but it deals with very heavy subjects like abuse, forgiveness, love and hate, climate change, etc. It’s wonderful and actually made me give a shit about a Marvel character lol
on comics: Don’t bother with Superman Red Son. Garbage as hell.
This. Ultras, trots and radlibs of course love it.
Bro no way someone who calls themselves socialists can like that shit. Not even ultras or trots, the comic is a giant “what about human nature tho?” How tf do they like it??
Maybe they just like that it shits on their imagined version of the USSR
Cringe as usual
It shits on USSR and especially Stalin. Ultras, trots and anarkiddies, etc. will always eat that up even if there’s “CIA” written on the trough.
It ends up praising capitalism anyway
Why are these people this way? It is fucking detrimental to them too!
Nice, I’ll have a look. Any other comics you’d recommend?
(Yeah, I’ve heard as much, which is unfortunate, because a communist Superman could be very interesting)
Not sure if you’re into manga at all but right now I’m hyper-fixated on Berserk and I absolutely adore it. It deals a lot, arguably too much, with sexual violence though, so it’s a very cautious recommendation – I’m a survivor and it’s more cathartic than anything so far, for me personally, especially its deconstruction of toxic masculinity and dealing with trauma in constructive ways.
Junji Ito’s work is fun. I read through Uzumaki and enjoyed it a lot, it’s a very surreal and interesting thought experiment in some ways, and a story about obsession and community collapse. The art is gorgeous and horrifying.
I read quite a lot of manga. Berserk is very good and it’s sad that Miura never got to finish it. I’ve also read most of Junji Ito’s (horror) works, I think (Uzumaki is definitely the best one)
Unfortunately, I’ve found very few anti-capitalist series. The only one I can think of is “Destroy and Revolution”, and it’s infuriatingly awful past the halfway point (very disappointing because the premise was really interesting)
I’ve been recommended it before, I think Im gonna read it after I ffinish one-punch man