Reposting what I initially said here (I think pro-trans liberation media and fiction and all that stuff should also count!).
I’m also trying to curate Marxist literature and put it in document for everyone to see.
Let me know if you come across any leftist, socialist, communist, etc. cinema/movies, videos, literature (fictional), TV shows/streaming serials, and other works of art in its entirety.
Give me the names and basic info so I can put it in my document for others to see eventually (I’m still working on it).
Oh, and video games especially are good in this regard (I already put in Disco Elysium lol).
I have a big list of left films, I keep track of them and can post them later, I’m just busy today. In the meantime this thread had a bunch of good recommendations, also in c/movies there used to be a link to a torrent folder with tons of left flicks, not sure where it went
Leftist novels:
- A Grain of Wheat by ngugi wa thiong’o (about anti-colonialism in British Kenya)
- Memed My Hawk by Yasar Kemal (about peasants in 20th century Turkey)
- From Wonso Pond by Kang Kyeong-ae (about peasants in Japanese Korea)
- La Debacle by Emile Zola (depicts the Paris Commune at the end but in a traitorous liberal way, I still like Zola though, especially for L’Assommoir and Germinal, both of which are truly great novels)
- The Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh (about the Vietnam War from a North Vietnamese soldier’s perspective—the memoir is great even if the author is a lib)
- Kindred and Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler (great, fun, easy-to-read anti-slavery, anti-capitalist novels)
- The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (famous depiction of a worker’s alienation under capitalism)
- And Quiet Flows the Don (nothing really leftwing about it but it’s a Soviet classic, really fun to read, super horny, and totally ignored by Western literature experts—it also beat the reactionaries Nabokov and Borges to win the Nobel Prize in Literature)
- The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin (a great, fun read, many people mention it as having radicalized them)
Leftist films / TV shows:
- Battleship Potemkin (showed it to little kids and they loved it, so what’s your excuse?)
- Strike (interesting and innovative but way too long, the story of workers striking at a factory, proof that Eisenstein invented cinema and that cinema is a Soviet invention)
- Modern Times (Chaplin waves a red flag)
- Prey (Native Americans fight aliens and kkkolonizers)
- Battle of Algiers (anti-colonial classic I think about constantly—it’s basically a guide to destroying colonialism, The Wretched of the Earth as an entertaining drama, often featuring actors who were involved in the actual struggle)
- Star Trek: DS9 (the Federation is about being trans, communist, and militant)
- Spartacus (anti-slavery epic written by a communist, the newer TV series is also good)
- Farscape (highly underrated series about a bunch of misfit “fugitives” fleeing the evil Peacekeepers across the galaxy, not 100% leftist though)
- War and Peace (the Soviet version is incredible and fun. Not really too political but mildly radicalizing in that it shows what Soviet cinema was capable of)
- Che 1 & 2 (absolutely fantastic and apparently popular in Cuba)
Putting this all down.
Decided to just make this into a thread hahaha
At the risk of tooting my own horn, my novel Space Corps is about what if a global communist revolution succeeded and began exploring nearby stars with FTL ships? I also have a new fantasy series being released chapter-by-chapter about a slave / worker / peasant uprising in Byzantium. Both the links I provided there are free.
Like, a full-fledged novel? Nice. Putting this down.
Cane Fire is a really wonderful, heartbreaking documentary about the US overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom and subsequent subjugation of the native people. It is about the filmmaker’s search for a censored movie about a peasant revolt on a Hawaiian plantation. Really highly recommend.
Alright, putting this down.
