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Fiction Books that can covertly convert Lib wage slave (hexbear.net)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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My sibling likes to read fiction. They’re a comically basic-ass shit-lib. This person says that they don’t like to talk about politics. They always take the bosses side at work, basically a reincarnation of our Rachel Maddow-parroting boomer capitalist fucboi parent.

I know it’s a tall order but: What work of fiction can I gift them that will break them out of their capitalist complacency and remind them that they’re nothing more than a wage slave before they can even resist the indoctrination? I want to be subtle but effective; it has to fly to under their radar.

To give you an idea of how hopeless this little lemming is: this person has been reading Vonnegut lately and legitimately didn’t even know that Eugene Debs was a real person. This person figured it out when I informed them of Debs when they were telling me that no one has ever run for President from a jail cell. 🤦🏿‍♂️

Halp!

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Maybe The Dispossessed?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I second this, this book put my teenage ass on the path to anarchism

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

it is the best book I know of for showing what living in an alternative to capitalism could be like

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I agree. not fluffy romanticization, just a plain, often harsh existence but shown in clear contrast with the excesses of capitalism. send me to Anarres now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Same here. Just an excellent, unflinching look at the benefits and drawbacks of living in a very, very different way than we do. It's really eye-opening if all you know about anarchism is what you've gotten from pop culture.