Hunger Games is unironically about imperialism and a worker uprising against imperial oppressors. The inner core is represented by the city, the periphery countries of the global south are represented by the districts, the actually-existing-socialist nations are represented by the free district.
I am 100% okay with libs replacing Harry fucking Potter with Hunger Games as their go-to book. It is VERY easy to radicalise libs by using this book to explain the imperialism in global society.
The book carefully avoids saying communism, but it is showing the workers of the periphery uniting together to overthrow the bourgeoisie of the imperial core. It is a very useful tool to radicalise libs with. Let them talk about it.
The funny thing is that in some interview the author explained that Panem was a communist dictatorship or something.
Edit: Shit, maybe she didn’t say that. I remember someone make this claim on reddit and didn’t bother to check.
Lmao wat. How can libs write something that so perfectly depicts global imperialism, its labour contradictions AND the solution to it, yet be completely oblivious to the real political discourse?
That author has to be self-aware and did that because they know it would hurt sales if they said it was a capitalist state. Like wth? Lmao it makes no sense at all.
EDIT: I wasn’t able to find anything to verify this. Lots of libs online calling it communism but I couldn’t find the author saying it.
Definitely an improvement on the lame Potter comparisons.
Just waiting for them to start posting The Stand references, that’s when you know shit’s getting real.
I haven’t read or thought about it much since I read it when I was whatever age in school, and I guess in my brain lumped it in with twilight and other “cringe YA book things” when I went through my edgelord phase
Hunger Games has great politics from what I remember
It’s a clever reversal where the “Chosen One” is quite literally chosen by outside powers and has at best a symbolic role in the greater revolution.
Like Katniss goes to do a one-woman mission to assassinate the Big Evil Dude and…fails. The Revolution happens irregardless of her one woman mission. And the Big Evil Dude dies without her intervention.
If it builds popular support for rioters, I’ll fucking take it.
