50 Sci-Fi & Fantasy Works Every Socialist Should Read by China Mieville
Originally from https://fantasticmetropolis.com/i/50socialist/full/
This is not a list of the “best” fantasy or SF. There are huge numbers of superb works not on the list. Those below are chosen not just because of their quality—which though mostly good, is variable—but because the politics they embed (deliberately or not) are of particular interest to socialists. Of course, other works—by the same or other writers—could have been chosen: disagreement and alternative suggestions are welcomed. I change my own mind hour to hour on this anyway.
An Anarchist's Guide to Surviving Coronavirus - Four Thieves Vinegar Collective
A guide for dealing with coronavirus and other infections viruses. Written in late February 2020.
The Dispossessed
Full online text -- as well as pdf, epub, and mobi files -- of Ursula Le Guin's anarchist sci-fi classic The Dispossessed.
Biographies of and works about Rosa Luxemburg - reading guide
Book length or pamphlet length (10,000 words+) or otherwise notable biographies of the life of and works about Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919) with considerable reference to her politics in chronological order. No works by Luxemburg except in edited collections or extracts.
Biographies of and works about Mikhail Bakunin - reading guide
Book length or pamphlet length (10,000 words+) or otherwise notable biographies of the life of and works about the founder of the Anarchist movement Mikhail Bakunin (1814-1876) with considerable reference to his politics in chronological order. No works by Bakunin except in edited collections or extracts. For works by Bakunin see https://libcom.org/library/works-mikhail-bakunin-reading-guide
Vichy france: Old guard and new order, 1940-1944
Robert O. Paxton's classic study of the aftermath of France's sudden collapse under Nazi invasion utilizes captured German archives and other contemporary materials to construct a strong and disturbing account of the Vichy period in France.
The strange career of jim crow - C. Vann Woodward
The Strange Career of Jim Crow is one of the great works of Southern history. Indeed, the book actually helped shape that history.
At canaan's edge: America in the King years, 1965-68
At Canaan's Edge concludes America in the King Years, a three-volume history that will endure as a masterpiece of storytelling on American race, violence, and democracy.
Pillar of fire: America in the King years, 1963-65
From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Taylor Branch, the second part of his epic trilogy on the American Civil Rights Movement.
Parting the waters: Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement 1954-63 - Taylor Branch
First of a 3-volume social history, Parting the Waters is more than a biography of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. during the decade preceding his emergence as a national figure.
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