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[–] PleasantPeasant@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

nice! it feels to me there is a dearth of communist fiction out there, although admittedly i have only mostly read fanfiction for a longtime so maybe there is much more original communist fiction compared to fanfic which for whatever reason seems to have a particularly high concentration of shitlib/radlib works (not to mention ive found way more outright fascist work than communist fanfics!)

[–] ExotiqueMatter@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

There is a genuine lack of communist fiction. There are some anti-capitalist and anti-corporations fictions as ultra-capitalist dystopias, typically cyberpunk stuff, and the occasional post-scarcity sci-fi setting that is communist in all but name, but there is barely any explicitly communist fictions.

I've been thinking for a while that we should make a list of leftist novels (and other medias), pin it somewhere, like in a dedicated community, or in the sidebar, and regularly update it with new recommendations from comrades in the community.

It would be cool also to have more comrades writing, and have a place to post writings at. Maybe they could post short pieces in c/worldbuilding but a lemmy post wouldn't do for longer works so it would be nice to have a dedicated place for the writers of our community to post stuff, like something similar to royalroad maybe.

[–] pyromaiden@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

That would be awesome and I'm down for it. I'm trying to work on the lack of explicitly pro-communist fiction myself and it'd be cool to see what other comrades are working on in this regard.

[–] ExotiqueMatter@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I've been working on a sci-fi setting I could tell stories in for a while. I'm still very much only doing worldbuilding and haven't written any stories yet though. Also, I tend to be very inconsistent with continuing things I started because ADHD and all that so no definitive promises.

[–] pyromaiden@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 5 hours ago

Big same all around. I feel you, comrade.

[–] Semoan@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

it's hard to do such fanfics when there's not much in way of lore to build upon, especially ones concerning material and historical crises

[–] PleasantPeasant@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

i dont think it's any harder than any other fiction? surely even a little shared world building is easier than coming up with all of it on your own? it's so bad man people dont even display class struggle of like, workers coming together to strike and how the owning class deals with that? like ultimately even with a magic system i dont think should actually be that hard to display some sort of class struggle, really my complaint boils down to not only are there very view outright socialist works there are barely even any works that show class struggle in fantasy/sci fi worlds?