periodic reminder that Harry Potter is the story of a war between the members of a secret ruling class who heroically believe that anybody born with the right genes to enter it belongs in it and the members who believe you need the right genes *and* a pedigreed source for them
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Replying to @chaosprime
It's the same premise behind so much fantasy genre writing, As a lifelong socialist, I just can't read this stuff.
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Replying to @graywave @chaosprime
As a lifelong socialist...any authors you can recommend, please? So much writing today seems to be heavily libertarian.
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Graydon Saunders' Commonweal series are about a radically egalitarian society in the middle of a world messed up by millenia of super-powerful super-paranoid sorcerer dictators.
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Sounds interesting, if a bit dark. Tbh, I'm having trouble reading dystopic storylines lately. Do you know of anything non-dystopic that is simply build on a socialist-ish framework? (yeah, I know I'm being picky. I'm sorry)
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tbh all my recs are dark in their own way, Mieville is the most straight-up depressing, Brust's tone (in the Vlad Taltos books that Jhereg starts) is fun but in a society without a lot of hope so it's kinda gallows humor
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Banks is about "let's have an ultratech space anarchosyndicalist utopia that is literally the best we could possibly do and, while enjoying that tremendously, also examine how it's still super fucked up"
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