/lit/ - Literature

>>8580403
Sounds more like a framework for a good idea than a good idea. It could be good or bad. We need more detail.

>>8580486
As someone working in Asia I can already identify with the feeling behind your idea. I think it could be a good yarn if you write it well and if you're authentic with how pathetic this kind of lifestyle is. What inspired it, anon?

>>8580679
I think this is a very interesting concept, and I'd read it for sure.


I've posted my idea in these threads before, but since I'm here might as well shoot again:
>2016, alternate history where Japan is a communist state akin to modern China
>two high school girls, one is in lesbians with the other, who is straight
>straight girl gets a boyfriend, lesbian gets jealous
>lesbian tries to deliberately injure herself so that her friend will pay attention to her
>backfires, straight friend is hit in the head instead, wakes up convinced that this is the wrong history, actively becomes a dissident
>is killed in a protest against the government a few years later
>rest of the novel follows the lesbian through her career as a Party cadre as she deals with the guilt of her youth in increasingly bizarre ways

Strongly recommend you try the Frankfurt School, suggest you start with Fromm's Escape from Freedom then Adorno and Horkheimer's Dialectic of Enlightenment.

If you want more up to date leftist opinion try The New Left Review, The Monthly Review or Jacobin.

Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex is the foundational text of modern feminism. It's a block of a thing, minimally I'd recommend you read excepts to get a grasp on how the movement sees itself, at least in 1949.

Victor Serge was a revolutionary Marxist who wrote about his experiences as an insurrectionist in Spain and Russia. As well as his memoirs he's known for his fiction, which carries a libertarian tendency, critical of State Socialism. Necessary reading to see the relation between theory and practice from a critical perspective. I'd recommend The Case of Comrade Tulayev.

For economics you might be interested in David Schweickart's theories of market socialism or Geoffrey M. Hodgson's book Economics and Institutions which directly challenges the assumptions of Milton Friedman