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  LazarusLong > December 11th, 2022, 07:24 PM

  Hey everyone,
  
  I’m looking for books that have an anti-corporation/anti-megacorpation ( i.e megacorporations gobble up corporations ) plot. The book ‘The Space Merchants’ is a well known example, and then there is ‘The Windup Girl’, which is amazing, if you haven’t read it, check it out.
  
  
  They can also be anti-capitalist science fiction. There are some I know I just can’t think of the names, I read them long ago. You may be capitalist yourself, so please don’t judge me for that. I’m not judging you you can have any way of running a county that you want. So no debating please, we will get nowhere with it. I just need recommendations of anti-capitalist books, that’s all.
  
  Thanks you so much everyone, and I can’t wait to see what new books I get to read next.
  
  LL

• RE: Anti-corporation and anti-capitalism science fiction

  Michael > December 12th, 2022, 03:57 PM

  Can't think of any books, but Pixar's Wall-E is kind of anti-megacorporation.
  
  Not quite in the category of anti-capitalism, Planets for Sale by A.E. Van Vogt is a classic space opera adventure where the anti-hero is zillionaire Artur Blord. He is a member of an elite class of wealthy business owners who operate on the edge or just outside the laws of a group of worlds known as the Ridge Star planets (spanning either about 200 star systems or a 200-light-year-long group of stars). The basic premise is that too much wealth concentrated into one or a few people's hands leads to inevitable civil conflict. The Ridge Star government has a love-hate relationship with Blord, who is morally one of the more reasonable wealthy elites.

• RE: Anti-corporation and anti-capitalism science fiction

  august > December 13th, 2022, 05:44 AM

  Agent of Chaos by Norman Spinrad.
  
  The Stainless Steel Rat by Harry Harrison.

• RE: Anti-corporation and anti-capitalism science fiction

  Michael > December 18th, 2022, 12:18 PM

  I think a lot of Harry Harrison's books tapped that anti-corporation stratum. They weren't always the main plot but somehow the corporations weren't painted as great participants in society.
  
  Just about anything in the Star Trek universe might qualify as anti-capitalist. The Ferengi made a mockery of capitalism (and were a huge disappointment as ST villains - Quark made them bearable).
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