/lit/ - Literature

OP, please read this book.

>You see, what we're after is to remind ourselves that we didn't come to Anarres for safety, but for freedom. If we must all agree, all work together, we're no better than a machine. If an individual can't work in solidarity with his fellows, it's his duty to work alone. His duty and his right. We have been denying people that right. We've been saying, more and more often, you must work with the others, you must accept the rule of the majority. But any rule is tyranny. The duty of the individual is to accept no rule, to be the initiator of his own acts, to be responsible. Only if he does so will the society live, and change, and adapt, and survive. We are not subjects of a State founded upon law, but members of a society formed upon revolution. Revolution is our obligation : our hope of evolution.

Ursula K. Le Guin is the world only non-obnoxious commie/anarchist. I like how she realizes that a anarchist world would be necessarily quite a bit poorer than a enterprise based one. It always drives me nuts about marx about how he's like "omg then the heavens will shit BMW's and concertos all over the proletariate THE END". Also, in the absence of government, social pressure would mostly pick up a lot of the void; rather doing things because otherwise you end up in prison, you just end up moving the government into your own mind in a system of shame.

there's alot of right libertarian stuff, Heinlein being the most high profile author i can think of, there's even a fucking award for libertarian science fiction (prometheus).

What about SF from a left wing perspective. The only ones i can think of right now are The Dispossessed by LeGuin and The Culture which somewhat anarchist utopian. Anything else with left libertarian themes or is that it?