I'm sure y'all have heard a lot of modern day sci-fi/fantasy authors or comic book writers sneer whenever someone critiques them about injecting politics into their work. Or they usually say "they have always been political" or like Tanahesi (not sure I spelled it correctly) Coates said that he writes his comic books (I'm sure Marvel hired him for his passion for comics) to make us feel uncomfortable.
It has been said time and time again that with good writing you can address any theme and since people started writing stories different themes have always been addressed. I just think it is absurd for them to get mad if you say you want to read a book and just escape. I mean who isn't familiar with left wing talking points by now?
Why do they get so upset if you critique the injection of modern day politics or lack of escapism? I think it is a valid critique.
Gramsci? We’re they an author? But yea sometimes I’m thinking you know you can just have a basic story about good and evil
He was an Italian ne'er-do-well criminal scumbag who would have died in obscurity if he didn't manage to trick early 20th century communists to deify and immortalize him. He was (justifiably) imprisoned for being a violent shit-stirring punk. The bulk of his "intellectual" output were schizophrenic scrawls of a madman desperately trying to keep his mind busy while he had nothing to do but navel gaze in prison. He died at 46 of the same dreadful conditions that countless underactive miserable citizens in modern society are currently being subjected to due to lockdowns.