It’s a funny little rabbit hole, but someone here shared something about The Satanic Temple (I think they confused them with the Church of Satan) so it led me to dig into TST’s stated ideology and their beef w/ CoS. Their ideology is unsurprisingly a bit of a mess, and in their official statement they seemingly attempt to synthesize Romantic Satanist themes w/ pseudo-socialist rhetoric sprinkled in with some pretty cringe Americana. Regardless I enjoy both Percy Shelley and Byron’s work, so I got their “Introduction to Romantic Satanism” and they mentioned Anatole’s novel which sounded interesting, a communist’s fictitious retelling of the war in heaven. It’s good so far! Surprisingly funny. Although it’s an early 20th century text translated from French into English, so it can be a little clunky at times.

It’s difficult to find fiction related to communism or workers’ movements without it being some vile reactionary crap for sure.