I guess I’m looking for myth that promotes communal ideas, relates to worker alienation, etc.? I think of the book of Acts in the bible, that’s somewhere between an example of how christians are supposed to live and a defense of paul before he’s executed, right? but incidentally the book has ideas that can be carried forward and developed into a marxist-friendly understanding of how to live, even if it’s loaded in stuff a well read marxist would find objectionable, there will be no perfect examples and i find it tiresome to get lost in pedantry about it so spare me!!!

I also wanna write some. Like “hades began to push and proliferate communism because he was horrified by the trauma of the humans coming through his gates and despised our cruel fates” feels like a decent basis for a mythic story idk

look i dont wanna get into the relationship of myth and religion to marxism, not really, i just like writing fake myth and i need an idea of what’s out there in order to make something worthy of the concept

  • Sebrof [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 months ago

    @Philosophosphorous@hexbear.net here mentioned Daoism, and I’d like to drop this article from Red Sails that compares and contrasts Daoism with Dialectical Materialism. This isn’t a mythology as you asked, but hopefully you may find it useful. There are similarities between when it comes to seeing the world as a constant flow with a unity of opposites. There are differences too, where Daoism sees change as cyclical (no progress) while Dialectical Materialism sees change as an upward-moving spiral (contradictions move systems forward and their “overcoming” moves the system to a higher set of contradictions). It also gives a good explanation of Dialectics.

    The article also discussed how Daoism influenced Mao and his military ideas.

    Here’s the article: https://redsails.org/maoist-and-daoist-dialectics/

    In terms of stories, there’s also an article on Red Sails of three short stories (one of which is very Daoist) and how they relate to ideas from Dialectical Materialism.

    Here are the stories: https://redsails.org/on-three-short-stories/#fn8