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While obviously capitalism sucks for art, it's not clear to me that a LToV-based system would allow you to make the type of art you want to make without consideration of what the people who use the art will value.

This is not quite the same since it is not about freedom of movement but instead about economic control, but is an interesting comparison: the US charges its citizens income tax even when they are not resident in the US, and it is the only country that does this, IIRC.

If you leave the US and immigrate elsewhere, the only way to stop paying for the US's militaristic imperialism is to renounce your citizenship.

Maybe you find this essay has some useful ways to think about it: https://redsails.org/china-has-billionaires/

It quotes from mainstream media sources to support the charge that the communist party keeps their reins on the billionaires in a way that just doesn't happen in capitalist countries, with an eye towards long term goals.

it's very good 😊

Yeah, definitely! Once you win a revolution, you have to govern, and that inolves rules and tradeoffs etc.

You might like this essay: Western Marxism, the Fetish for Defeat, and Christian Culture

Some of these have already been mentioned but I would suggest the following:

• What Is To Be Done by Chernyshevsky. Lenin read it five times in a summer and named his pamphlet after that. Xi Jinping lists it as a fave too. It was huge in the years leading up to the October Revolution. It has better credentials as revolutionary socialist literature than probably anything else. It is a cozy read, and i think the narrator is funny.
• The Dispossessed by Le Guin. Yeah it is anarchist, but i think it's interesting how she explores both liberalism and anarchism, and imagines how things like language change when your mode of production do. I have a twitter thread on some highlights/questions it explores (spoilers though).
• Babel by RF Kuang. This is not socialist, IMO, and its anti-capitalism is more anti-imperialism rather than taking the form of moving past capitalism. Still it's a fun read; the world building replaces mechanization with magic, and explores how industrialization/capitalism leads to imperialism (eg Opium Wars). I have a thread on some of the world-building in it and why it's neat from a socialist angle here (again, some spoilers).

I did read The Jungle too, but i thought it was kinda dated, miserable and uninspiring. Maybe you like it better than I did.

Ahh, I was going to offer to help plot and analyze but just saw you don't have the data.