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What are some good novels with communist, anarchist, anti-imperialist, or just generally leftist themes?

I've been in a creative slump for the past few months and I'd like to start reading fiction again in order to give my imagination a boost. But I'd like to read something leftist themed. Post your suggestions, bonus points for a synopsis.

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Anyone?

Read Ian Banks if you want post-scarcity anarcho-communist benevolent AI ruled utopia wankfics.

The Mars trilogy is shilled on here pretty often, although I haven't read them myself.

Dune is objectively anti-imperialist and Islampilled.

All works of fiction are bourgeois and should be banned. If a book does not contain information to improve your life or those around you in a concrete manner it should not exist.
The author is a bourgeois job who scribbles lies for a living and should accordingly be sent on a permanent vacation in a Siberian winter resort.

But then who would write for Pravda?

Absolute. I was pleasantly surprised when I got to God Emperor of Dune. I'm about to read the last book.

Your dick is bourgeois and it should be banned.

No, fiction is good because i say so.

Maybe you should expand your literary taste?

I've said this before elsewhere but Graziella by Alphonse de LaMartine is one of my favorite books, it takes place in Italy in the 1800s, and is semi-autobiographical, about the main character who comes from a wealthy family living with a poor fishing family. LaMartine, from Encyclopedia Britannica:

Lamartine interrupted his literary endeavours to become more active as a politician. He was convinced that the social question, which he himself called “the question of the proletariat,” was the principal issue of his time. He deplored the inhumanity of the worker’s plight; he denounced the trusts and their dominant influence on governmental politics, directing against them two discourses, one in 1838 and another in 1846; and he held that a working-class revolution was inevitable and did not hesitate to hasten the hour, promising the authorities, in July 1847, a “revolution of scorn.” In the same year he published his Histoire des Girondins, a history of the right, or moderate, Girondins during and after the French Revolution, which earned him immense popularity with the left-wing parties.

After the revolution of February 24, 1848, the Second Republic was proclaimed in Paris, and Lamartine became, in effect, head of the provisional government. Among the reforms passed during the early months of the Second Republic were the adoption of universal male suffrage and the abolition of slavery in French territories. The propertied classes, who were at first startled by this new government, pretended to accept the new circumstances, but they were unable to tolerate the fact that the working class possessed arms with which to defend themselves. In April 1848 Lamartine was elected to the National Assembly by 10 départements. The bourgeoisie, represented by the right-wing parties, thought they had elected in Lamartine a clever manipulator who could placate the proletariat while military forces capable of establishing order, such as they conceived of it, were being reconstituted. The bourgeoisie was enraged to discover, however, that Lamartine was, indeed, as he had proclaimed himself to be, the spokesman of the working class. On June 24, 1848, he was thrown out of office and the revolt crushed.

If 19th century romantic literature isn't your thing either, maybe you'd like A Happy Death by Albert Camus? It's more modern and not super "leftist" but it's a good read and it questions where value comes from in our lives under capitalism.

No, leftists who read nothing but scifi are the real ones with limited taste.

Was he far right? Stranger from a strange land is seemingly anarchist in nature, he says that property is a social construct, not a natural right. I think he may have just liked taking up different perspectives.