Brust is a #Trotskyist, part of the cadre of #Marxist fantasy writers whose work is notable for getting the ratio of vassals to nobles right - while Tolkien might sprinkle a few picturesque peasants in the background for color, Brust devotes multiple volumes of the Taltos saga to the vast, numberless peasants whose toil is necessary to maintain the perfumed lives of the lords and ladies who are normally in the foreground of high fantasy.

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https://jacobin.com/2023/04/ernest-mandel-marxist-economics-late-capitalism

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I was raised as a #Trotskyist within #Trotskyism and taught to venerate #LeonTrotsky. I still think his work on the #UnitedFront is very important. We can unite as #AntiFascists but I don't have to pay lip service to any old bullshit that my allies happen to believe and I can keep my powder dry and watch my back around you thank you very much