Marxist fiction/science fiction

[Dialectical_Materialist]

Are there any good fiction novels out there that deal with Marx's ideas or themes? I realise I could google this.

[OnFire]

It may be quite far fetched but in my opinion Star Trek represents a communist society quite nicely, with the abolition of money and all.

[Dialectical_Materialist]

It may be quite far fetched but in my opinion Star Trek represents a communist society quite nicely, with the abolition of money and all.

Not far fetched at all. It's my fave TV show and depicts a futuristic utopian society that has defeated scarcity seems to have abolished commodity exchange.

[ñángara]

Are there any good fiction novels out there that deal with Marx's ideas or themes? ..


J. Posadas

Flying saucers, the process of matter and energy,
science, the revolutionary and working-class struggle
and the socialist future of mankind

(26 June 1968)


marxists.org /archive/posadas/1968/06/flyingsaucers


J. Posadas (1912–1981) was the pseudonym of Homero Rómulo Cristalli Frasnelli, an Argentine Trotskyist whose personal vision is usually described as Posadism.

See a referential image at: spa.fotolog (.com) /photo/42/45/33/the__revolution/1264661876010_f. it's a .jpg

[o well this is ok I guess]

Bogdanov, a bolshevik himself, wrote a novel called Red Star about a socialist colony on mars.
idk if it's good, I've never read it, but it fits the bill for what you're looking for.

[Cliff Paul]

I've heard that The Dispossessed is about a futuristic Anarcho-Syndicalist society. I've never read it before but it seems to fit what you are looking for.

[The Idler]

Those interested in Socialist Science Fiction may be interested in joining the usergroup for this subject
http://www.revleft.com/vb/group.php?groupid=1288
oh and there is always this list
http://theweeklyansible.tumblr.com/post/20777236577/50-sci-fi-fantasy-works-every-socialist-should

[bricolage]

I've heard that The Dispossessed is about a futuristic Anarcho-Syndicalist society. I've never read it before but it seems to fit what you are looking for.
Yep, I was just about to mention the Dispossessed - it's very good. I haven't read any other Le Guin but I think these ideas might be in a bunch of her other books as well.

[Full Metal Bolshevik]

Too lazy to read, no movies or series? ^^

[Brandon's Impotent Rage]

China Mieville.

He's both one of the best fantasy/sci-fi writers in the UK, as well as a Marxist Academic.

[blake 3:17]

I was going to say China Mievelle -- I really love The Kraken and The City and The City.

Quite a lot of early science fiction -- the stuff from the 30s and 40s -- was written by fellow travellers of the Communist Party. Isaac Asimov was suspected by the FBI of being one.

Frederik Pohl was in the Young Communist League, here's an interview: http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/frederick-pohl-424-v15n12

[bricolage]

China Mieville is fantastic but I wouldn't say the books that blake mentioned (both of which are very good) really "deal with Marx's ideas or themes". However, I've heard that Iron Council is very Paris Commune-esque.