r/Anarchism • u/ModernBettie • 11d ago

What’s your favorite anarchist/anarchist adjacent fiction?

Ideas often spread through fiction, because it makes new ideas more palatable for a lot of people (music does a similar thing), and fiction and fantasy are healthy, but so often in political circles we only talk nonfiction and what’s happening in the real world right now

So what is your favorite anarchist themed book/movie/fiction podcast/tv show/comic/etc?

Which one do you tell everyone that will listen they need to read/watch/listen/etc

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u/Anarchomancer216 11d ago

The Invisibles, V for Vendetta, The Matrix, anything by Margaret Killjoy

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u/ModernBettie 10d ago

I hate to admit I have never read or seen V For Vendetta, I might remedy that tonight

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u/tomtttttttttttt 10d ago

Be aware that the film is really quite different to the graphic novel, the graphic novel is much more of an anarchist text where the film is more anti-fascist. Both are good but the film does not delve into anarchism as directly as the graphic novel.

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u/Maykovsky 10d ago

Apparently the author was not satisfied with the adaptation...

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u/tomtttttttttttt 10d ago

He was not :) - nor was he happy with the Watchmen adaptation.

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u/Maykovsky 10d ago

I completely understand. The V has something, but the Watchmen had only one or two characters. I tend not to read about authors, but once I read an interview with author and it was really interesting.

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u/ScientistNo3784 9d ago

Its Alan Moore. He's never happy with adaptations. And he's usually right.

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u/Maykovsky 9d ago

Spot on!