Favorite communist novels?

[fa2991]

My favorite communist novels are Atlas Shrugged & the Fountainhead.

Atlas Shrugged is a pointlessly long book (the length alone makes it Marxian) about a bunch of people who are dissatisfied with society, so they go off and live in a commune while society crumbles, all the while giving long, dry, Castro-esque speeches. Totally Marxist!

The Fountainhead is about an innovative architect who signs contracts with a bunch of businessmen and then just blows up all their property at the end. Totally Marxist!

[Comrade_Stalin]

My favorite communist novels are Atlas Shrugged & the Fountainhead.

Atlas Shrugged is a pointlessly long book (the length alone makes it Marxian) about a bunch of people who are dissatisfied with society, so they go off and live in a commune while society crumbles, all the while giving long, dry, Castro-esque speeches. Totally Marxist!

The Fountainhead is about an innovative architect who signs contracts with a bunch of businessmen and then just blows up all their property at the end. Totally Marxist!

How are these communist novels? Atlas Shrugged & the Fountainhead come from Ayn Rand. Her are some of here views.

From wiki


Rand's political views, reflected in both her fiction and her theoretical work, emphasize individual rights (http://www.revleft.com/wiki/Individual_rights) (including property rights) and laissez-faire (http://www.revleft.com/wiki/Laissez-faire) capitalism, enforced by a constitutionally limited government (http://www.revleft.com/wiki/Limited_government). She was a fierce opponent of all forms of collectivism (http://www.revleft.com/wiki/Collectivism) and statism (http://www.revleft.com/wiki/Statism),[3] (http://www.revleft.com/vb/#cite_note-onlypath-2)[4] (http://www.revleft.com/vb/#cite_note-3) including fascism (http://www.revleft.com/wiki/Fascism), communism (http://www.revleft.com/wiki/Communism), socialism (http://www.revleft.com/wiki/Socialism), and the welfare state (http://www.revleft.com/wiki/Welfare_state),[5] (http://www.revleft.com/vb/#cite_note-4) and promoted ethical egoism (http://www.revleft.com/wiki/Ethical_egoism) while rejecting the ethic of altruism (http://www.revleft.com/wiki/Altruism_(ethics)).[6] (http://www.revleft.com/vb/#cite_note-5)

[ContrarianLemming]

How are these communist novels? Atlas Shrugged & the Fountainhead come from Ayn Rand. Her are some of here views.


I know sarcasm isn't translated well over the net, but even I got the OP :p

I like the last of the masters.

[Magón]

Favorite Pinko Novel has got to be Out of the Night. If you've never heard of it, you're a fool. (Not really, I just felt like throwing a cheap hollow insult at people.) Really though, it's a badass book.

[fa2991]

How are these communist novels? Atlas Shrugged & the Fountainhead come from Ayn Rand. Her are some of here views.

Thanks for ruining the joke.

(...and please don't ask why I would thank you for ruining my joke.

That was sarcasm, too. :p)

[RED DAVE]

How the Steel Was Tempered (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_the_Steel_Was_Tempered)

Hardcore!

There are links to pdf files of the two parts of the book at the bottom of the page.

RED DAVE

[Red Commissar]

It wasn't really "Communist", but Jack London's "The Iron Heel" was pretty interesting considering when it was written.

[Pavlov's House Party]

Tadeusz Borowski's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadeusz_Borowski)book "This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen." He was a communist who was sent to a few concentration camps in Nazi Germany and his book is a novelized collection of the things that happened to him. He sincerely believed that the abolishment of capitalism was the only way to prevent future holocausts, until the stalinist regime in afterwar Poland denounced his works as "bourgeois nihilism" and executed his friend. He committed suicide a while after.

I've never read a book so frank in its portrayal of death and suffering, and sometimes I found myself reading over a paragraph a few times just to try to understand the brutality and misery of human existence in a concentration camp.

Here's a quote from the book that's always stayed with me since I finished it:



We told them with much relish all about our difficult, patient, concentration-camp experience which had taught us the whole world is really like a concentration camp; the weak work for the powerful, and if they have no strength or will to work - then let them steal, or let them die...

We were laying the foundation for some new, monstrous civilization. Only now do I realize what price was paid for building the ancient civilization. The Egyptian pyramids, the temples, the Greek statues - what a hideous crime they were! How much blood must have been poured on to the Roman roads, the bulwarks and city walls? Antiquity - the tremendous concentration camp where the slave was branded on the forehead by his master, and crucified for trying to escape. Antiquity - the conspiracy of freemen against slaves.

You know how much I used to like Plato. Today I realized he lied. For the things of this world are not a reflection of the ideal, but the product of human sweat, blood and hard labour. It is we who built the pyramids, hewed the marble for the temples and rocks for the imperial roads, we who pulled the oars and dragged wooden ploughs, while they wrote dialogues and dramas, rationalized their intrigues by appeals in the name of Fatherland, made wars over boundaries. We were filthy and died real deaths. They were "aesthetic" and carried on subtle debates.

There can be no beauty if it is paid for by human injustice, nor truth that passes over injustice in silence, nor moral virtue that condones it.