Super Heroes and Villains, Under Capitalism

why anti-capitalist fiction should embrace villainy

Black Cat
Black Cat
Jan 13 · 9 min read

In American fiction, the default premise is ‘they fight crime’. That is to say, the default story is a story about police. The default story is the story of the people who use violence to enforce the will of the state.

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Black Cat

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I write about neurodivergence, anarchism, market socialism, economics, accelerationism, and science fiction.

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