Socialism In Novels

[Vendetta]

Anyone encounter socialism in novels/books/fiction/whatever?

I recently read my dad's copy of 4-Day Planet, by H. Beam Piper, and it involves a 'Hunters Cooperative' rebelling against the government/colluding union reps of a colonized planet.
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19478

I'll post more about it in the morning; too fucked up.

[Fawkes]

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

[Jimmie Higgins]

"Jimmie Higgins" by Upton Sinclair:lol:

"In Dubious Battle" - This Steinbeck novel is about (thinly veiled Communist Party) organizers in the depression who are sent to an apple farm to help build a strike. It's a hilarious book for radicals to read today because of things like the CP members having to go through a "job-interview" in order to become a member. But overall this is probably one of the best fiction accounts of a labor struggle from this time period. Steinbeck gets the pace of a struggle so perfectly, it's amazing - all the emotional ups and downs in the mood of the strikers, all the long slow periods of waiting and tension and seeing what they other side is going to do.

[Magón]

The Iron Heel by Jack London

Out of the Night by Jan Valtin


I can't think of anything else right now.

[revolution inaction]

The Dispossessed - Ursula Le Guin

Iain M Banks culture novels

[Rakhmetov]

A Flag For Sunrise by Robert Stone

[Red Commissar]

Germinal by Emile Zola has a socialist bent to it. I guess to an extent The Sleeper Awakes by HG Wells had some socialistic themes in it, in his own scatterbrained way. Hell, if you're feeling utopian and want a religious bent, Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward is one that comes to mind. he other ones I know have been mentioned.

[black magick hustla]

"a world without visa" by malaquais. a big part of the novel involves marc chirik´s tiny left communist group in france agitating against both sides of world war ii and against the getsapo. also i like the part where "marc laverne" which is marc chirik calls victor serge a spinless coward lol

[RED DAVE]

The Dispossessed by Ursula LeGuin, mentioned above by revolution inaction is probably the finest utopian novel of the 20th Century.

Excerpts here:

The Dispossessed (http://books.google.com/books?id=k1Smynbdy_IC&printsec=frontcover&dq=le+guin+the+dispossessed&source=bl&ots=nm_DGiAKwI&sig=s5oJid4hJf4vck82r_fImgXqZZE&hl=en&ei=5hHcTKS4DZDksQOK4aiaBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&sqi=2&ved=0CEwQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q&f=false)

RED DAVE

[Bandito]

Aldous Huxley-Island

[Podeba]

Anyone encounter socialism in novels/books/fiction/whatever?
Of course. There are thousands of socialist realist novels, short stories, poems, etc. Some of the most famous works of this kind are:

Sholokhov - Quiet Flows the Don

N. Ostrovsky - How the Steel Was Tempered

Furmanov - Chapaev

A. Fadeyev - The Rout

M. Gorky - The Life of Klim Samgin

L. Leonov - The Badgers

Serfaimovich - The Iron Stream

Fedin - Cities and Years

[Diello]

Of course. There are thousands of socialist realist novels, short stories, poems, etc. Some of the most famous works of this kind are:

Sholokhov - Quiet Flows the Don

N. Ostrovsky - How the Steel Was Tempered

Furmanov - Chapaev

A. Fadeyev - The Rout

M. Gorky - The Life of Klim Samgin

L. Leonov - The Badgers

Serfaimovich - The Iron Stream

Fedin - Cities and Years

Assuming you've read these, can you give me a rundown on them? Which would you recommend, and on the basis of what qualities?