/lit/ - Literature

Or a vidya example (but it might count) is Disco Elysium. It's a Marxist game but it's a critique of ideology (but that's why it is). But a lot of people when they think of Marxism are thinking of a few symbols and slogans. Iain Banks stands out to me as a communist sci-fi writer. But I think when "ideological" art or fiction or whatever else goes wrong is to have art serve ideology, rather than the other way around, and that can go just as much for Marxism as any other ideology. How could it not? The point of communism, as I see it, is a space where there is no economic exploitation and no ideological intimidation whether in the name of Marxism or communism or not. Art can maybe then be little islands of communism.

>“I am a communist and my painting is a communist painting. But if I were a shoemaker, Royalist, or Communist or anything else, I would not necessarily hammer my shoes in any special way to show my politics.“
Pablo Picasso

>Our lives are about development, mutation and the possibility of change; that is almost a definition of what life is: change... If you disable change, if you effectively stop time, if you prevent the possibility of the alteration of an individual's circumstances — and that must include at least the possibility that they alter for the worse — then you don't have life after death; you just have death.
Iain Banks

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>tfw the universe steals away the best sci fi author of the 21st Century before his time