So difficult to find sympathetic fiction online. Currently looking at a book called The Sympathizer by a Vietnamese author about a pro-Vietnamese double agent living in Amerika, seems interesting. Every other search result is anti-communist piss splattered over pages and sold as “gripping, realistic, startlingly accurate”.
Even if it’s bad writing or whatever, I’m curious if any of y’all know some explicitly or implicitly communist fiction worth checking out.
In Dubious Battle by John Steinbeck, it starts with the main character joining the communist party and then going with another party member to start a union and orchestrate a strike among some agricultural workers, and follows how they do that and what happens after, how they manage repercussions from the media, cops, vigilantes, etc. It reads kind of like a how-to guide for preparing for and maintaining a strike.
The author wrote it by interviewing a guy who more or less is one of his main characters irl, so although the author is not necessarily pro-communist in his own position, his portrayal of the main characters and the strike is very well-done and honest imo