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Pro-socialist/Anti-Capitalist fiction books (lemmygrad.ml)
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I am looking for fiction books where the message is explicitly socialist or anti capitalist, sorta like Animal Farm, but against Capitalism.

Not really required, but it would be helpful if those books have easily accessible PDF copies of it.

Thanks in advance.

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[–] Kamelo 7 points 1 year ago

John Steinbeck's later years are probably at least problematic, but i think The Grapes of Wrath is excellent and it doesn't get brought up discussing socialist literature. It's an amazing book just due to the writing but it touches on a lot of core socialist values, the oppression of the proletariat, capitalist destruction of the environment, the need for solidarity, etc. When i bring it up most people wave it off as a book they had to read in school I read it on my own in my twenties and it's still one of my favorite books with Flowers for Algernon.