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Despite the seemingly large percentage of AT LEAST progressives who view Lenin favourably, how come there isnt any popular revolutionary fiction?

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[โ€“] Enjoyer_of_Games@hexbear.net 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I wonder if collaborative fiction like SCPF etc could form a collectivist counter movement to novels?

[โ€“] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago

Maybe! I don't think it's impossible to write a non-individualist novel, by any means - there's just a degree of difficulty there that's analogous to Truffaut's insistence that you can't make an anti-war film, because cinema inherently glorifies.

Most of the books I know of that address this question are still in my to-read pile but someday I'll go on a binge.