Despite the seemingly large percentage of AT LEAST progressives who view Lenin favourably, how come there isnt any popular revolutionary fiction?
Despite the seemingly large percentage of AT LEAST progressives who view Lenin favourably, how come there isnt any popular revolutionary fiction?
Capitalists control media and publishing and they’re class-conscious
Popular “revolutionary” fiction will either have the revolutionaries be arbitrarily evil, misguided, obnoxious or, most sinister and subtle of all, simply fight to recreate a staus quo that the story’s villain/s had destroyed prior to the hero’s journey
Either way, a story about characters fighting to control the means of production and destroy capital will never be allowed to gain widespread circulation
doesnt the basic structure of the hero’s journey shit basically guarantee a pro-status-quo ending?
in most explanations of the trope, it’s a circle. the hero lives in a bubble, the outside world intrudes, hero goes on a quest, stuff happens, they fix it, they go back to the bubble.
Yeah, the “end state” of the hero’s journey has the hero return to the beginning, but changed. The change is almost always individual wisdom, power, or perspective, though. Even Star Wars, which features a revolutionary struggle as part of the hero’s journey, is actually pretty pro status quo in-universe–they’re fighting explicitly for the restoration of the previous political system that was so corrupt and ineffectual it gave rise to Space Fascism.
Gave rise to space fascism twice, which is at least an accurate depiction of how Bourgeois Democracy, Round Two would go down
Yeah, it’s always about internal change and stopping the outside world from changing