/lit/ - Literature

>>14430644
>They literally want to kill people
There are plenty of people on the left who literally want to kill people.

>>10005851

Unlike communist views, which are always "propagated" through peaceful means, such as armed insurrection.

>>8478326

>Joyce himself would have disagreed with this

Who cares?

>How do you account that so many of the 19th century books onwards have been written by socialists and would likely have been written anyway

Yeah but the socialists are hell bent on liquidating me as a class, and I won't have much time for leisure reading in a work camp.

>socialism doesn't produce art meme

Because of official socialist realism and anti-formalist repression in the USSR, which of course wasn't a TRUE socialist society ;) But aside from that, Communism, in any form, in any country, kills the soul and destroys individuality. It's only picturesque as a fringe rebellion, and that's where socialist art comes from.