Communist Literature?

[superborys]

I don't really know if this goes in Learning or somewhere else, but has anyone thought about the repercussions of Communist literature? Twilight was able to make vampires, in all their blood-sucking, life-draining evil hyper-popular with 3 books and a few movies, and Atlas Shrugged certainly has had a strong effect on culture today.

I don't think I've actually ever read Communist literature. By that I don't mean a discussion of Communism, I mean a fiction of Communism, perhaps having to do with the revolution itself, the fighting that would take place during the revolution, or the country afterward. I guess the most popular one that could arise out of those is a war novel, describing shortly before, during, and shortly after the revolution.

Also, if someone has got something like this, that would be really, really awesome.

[Saullos]

You have proletarian literature (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proletarian_literature) as well as socialist realist literature (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_realist).

[Blackscare]

Check "Homage to Catalonia" by George Orwell, it was an account of his time fighting with the Trotskyist POUM against Franco during the Spanish Civil War.

Really good read.

[Os Cangaceiros]

The Treasure of Sierra Madre by B. Traven (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._Traven)

[mcg]

Good point! We should have more communist literature, though I'm sure we can expect censure by the bourgeoisie press.