Okay, but real talk, “modern socialist transported into feudal era, goes about birthing socialist ideas into this context” is a hell of a good isekai/high fantasy plotline and I love it as a trope. Whether it genuinely explores primitive communism as a historical stage and Leninist tactics’ earliest roots in early popular revolts and people’s rebellions and radical equality religious heresies, or is just good fun with Soviet stereotypes running around feudal villages and cities spreading ideas at least a thousand years ahead of their time.
Yeah. It’s such a good trope. It’s rare, you kinda have to expand to “socialist ideals, even if not called socialism” and all “revolution stories” featuring an out-of-time character far more progressive than the place and time they’re transported to, to find a decent amount of it, but, like, let’s be real, good revolution stories are fun even if it’s not a communist revolution, and the destruction of an awful system is great even if the replacement isn’t as good as it could be, as long as it’s significantly better for the vast majority of the common folk. (Most of my favourites, the main characters aren’t even communists, just revolutionary leaders who use military tactics that Mao or Ho Chi Minh would recognize, and understand that you gotta feed your people and that you gotta create effective and democratic systems for people to govern themselves.)
King Alfred the Great was a socialist because he instituted some public education in the 890s
Okay, but real talk, “modern socialist transported into feudal era, goes about birthing socialist ideas into this context” is a hell of a good isekai/high fantasy plotline and I love it as a trope. Whether it genuinely explores primitive communism as a historical stage and Leninist tactics’ earliest roots in early popular revolts and people’s rebellions and radical equality religious heresies, or is just good fun with Soviet stereotypes running around feudal villages and cities spreading ideas at least a thousand years ahead of their time.
Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court crossed with Lazar Lagin’s Blue Man? Sounds fun!
Yeah. It’s such a good trope. It’s rare, you kinda have to expand to “socialist ideals, even if not called socialism” and all “revolution stories” featuring an out-of-time character far more progressive than the place and time they’re transported to, to find a decent amount of it, but, like, let’s be real, good revolution stories are fun even if it’s not a communist revolution, and the destruction of an awful system is great even if the replacement isn’t as good as it could be, as long as it’s significantly better for the vast majority of the common folk. (Most of my favourites, the main characters aren’t even communists, just revolutionary leaders who use military tactics that Mao or Ho Chi Minh would recognize, and understand that you gotta feed your people and that you gotta create effective and democratic systems for people to govern themselves.)
I’ve never seen it, but I want it. Please recommend some books or manga/manwha/mahua regarding it.