ITT: Leftist/progressive books that you actually enjoyed reading
Oh mah gawd da weftist bwooks?!?!?!
As a commie I find most books written by leftists to be insufferable. Flashman, which is written by a conservative, is a much more scathing indictment of colonialism than anything you were made to read in school.
Kapital.
>>25586161I read the first Flashman book, it was fun, but are the rest worth getting?
Does this count?
>>25586179They are all great except for Royal Flash and Flashman and the Tiger which are the only stinkers.
>>25586161These books always felt like small c conservative, especially compared to what passes as conservative today in America. It's closer to John Cleese than Nigel Farage.
>>25586181No.
>>25586152Not leftist or progressive. He calls out Martin Luther King and his lackeys for what they were; liberals and blacks only claim this book as one of their own because it's one of the rare cases of a great novel written by a non-white or hispanic person.
>>25586181Yes
>>25586373The book calls out all stripes of politicals. It is probably closer to what Clarence Thomas thinks he is than what he actually became. Not sure if Black Supremacist or pro-Segregationist are the right terms, but a sort of "black people need to decouple themselves from white America and until they do they will never be free"
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>>25586373>Wright was then openly associated with the Communist Party, and Ellison was publishing and editing for communist publications, although his "affiliation was quieter", according to historian Carol Polsgrove in Divided Minds.[17] Both Wright and Ellison lost their faith in the Communist Party during World War II, when they felt the party had betrayed African Americans and replaced Marxist class politics with social reformism. In a letter to Wright, dated August 18, 1945, Ellison poured out his anger with party leaders: "If they want to play ball with the bourgeoisie they needn't think they can get away with it. ... Maybe we can't smash the atom, but we can, with a few well chosen, well written words, smash all that crummy filth to hell." In the wake of this disillusion, Ellison began writing Invisible Man, a novel that was, in part, his response to the party's betrayal.
>>25586418Nigga as Ellison got older he became more reactionary. He famously cared little for the civil rights movement.
>>25586422Even the Black Panthers were critical of the civil rights movement, you utter mong
>>25586152Is that Peter Griffin making the black shadow?
Aa is that a nigger? Save me leftistmaaan!
>>25586152I guess this if you consider it leftist
>>25586175I used to align myself with this philosophy until I actually encountered leftists who wanted to murder me for having British ancestry. No thanks. started shrinking back to some modified libertarian framework after that.
>>25586528Are you in Quebec or something? Why not just leave?
>>25586152Don't care for Parenti's work otherwise, but I feel pic rel is an example of critical theory done right
>>25586201>closer to a liberal than a moderate liberal
>>25586410uh oh..
Adorno may have been an annoying leftie but he was basically a prophet wrt the culture industry. like he was literally a century ahead of his time, it's incredible
I remember when I tried reading this as a boy and got upset when there were no science fiction elements and the protagonist didn't actually have the power of turning invisible.
>>25586529I live in Ohio. plenty of oikiophobes down here too. Also travel is too expensive and I can't afford it.
>>25586152Invisible man is not progressive
