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Leftist Dog-whistles?

I'm writing a currently genre ambiguous Sci-Fi/lovecraft/spaceopera/superhero novel that doesn't outright declare everyone is openly is Maoist/Anarchist/Stalinist/Etc., (the alien characters won't have human etymology for their ideologies) and maybe it's not actually all that political on the surface anyways, but any tips for slipping in vegan and leftist dog-whistles?

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  • Stream of consciousness:

    Not using credits to pay for stuff. Have reproductive work and community relations (like small-ish collectives) be something no one bats an eye at. Have Polyamory and some people who pair bond. Have child care that isn't done by the "traditional" core family.

    Have easy access to resources and information. Historical newspaper clippings / blog posts about scarcity or lack of healthcare even though it was there.

    Maybe underline how much art there is, showing how much free time there is. Showing that conflict still exists. Job boards / skillshare boards. Historical reenactment of companies.

    Fancy voting systems? Mentions of Cybersyn? Holidays as in feasts for leftist things. Green bike-able and walk-able cities (think Ecotopia, but better) . Lots of usage of rivers and nice use of water bodies. Some produce is produced within arms reach where ever people are? No pets in the form we know them.

    Festivals with drug use and good consent?

    The Dispossessed is a neat book btw.

    Edit if there are sexual scenes then it could be possible to show that organic bodies how they come are not the non plus ultra, but that you can readily use whatever suits ie prosthetics, toys, or nothing, which is fine, too.

    "Altered" bodies, aka biomods, which are not scarce but more like fashion.

    Speaking of fashion: A multitude of options would be something I would like, but how is that done in an ecological fashion? Clubbing with colorful and fun outfits is good, but having 40 dresses might not be ideal, so they might be either cheap to fabricate and redo, some of them be semi-shared, might be so that they can change colour or form, be easily put into some water where magic aka chemical nano science magic does recolour / recode them. Maybe the threads of the fabric are not hard interwoven but connected so that they can easily change where every thread part goes.

    In terms of accessibility, I would like to imagine a world in which steps aren't a barrier for some of our comrades, this would mean that either there are no steps as we know them - as only option to get into something - to begin with, or techniques that enable to surpass them, since I believe hand-waving away that those are barriers since all people are able to climb them might be read as eugenically.

    Similarly displays of old ages are nice.

    Not having school as we know it, might be nice, too.

    Not having police and prisons, having semi-involved (local) communities that handle a lot of social frictions.

    Having a different way to deal with neurodivergents than our current society - which does repress, oppress, marginalize, criminalize, pathologize.

  • Could probably paraphrase this stalin quote

    It is difficult for me to imagine what "personal liberty" is enjoyed by an unemployed person, who goes about hungry, and cannot find employment.

    Real liberty can exist only where exploitation has been abolished, where there is no oppression of some by others, where there is no unemployment and poverty, where a man is not haunted by the fear of being tomorrow deprived of work, of home and of bread. Only in such a society is real, and not paper, personal and every other liberty possible.

  • Honestly? You might want to slip in references to leftist podcast/leftist twitter bits. They're esoteric enough, it's how I found out max0r, luke correia, and gianni magatrano are leftist or left adjacent :shrug-outta-hecks:

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