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.)
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.)