We all know children should read Das Kapital in the original German when they’re 12, but apart from that, what books or leftist cartoons should they be learning at different ages.
Age 4-8
Some Zapatista/Subcommandante Marcos books of fables
Age 9-13
???
Age 14-16
The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists
Theres been similar questions asked here for kids books which I don’t have the links for, sorry.
But these are age appropriate stories for like 8-10 year olds)
My brigadista year (https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/34427289)
And Papergirl (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42789231-papergirl)
The comic hyper-capitalism is a must read imo. My 12yr tried but I’m not giving up on it.
One more that was suggested in a similar thread recently is this book, which I haven’t read but looks great:
There are a couple threads here you can check out about books, I’ll throw some less explicit ones.
Real young: click clack moo: cows that type. Just a bunch of cows going on strike with chickens. We have A is for Activist, but my kids never liked it much, for whatever reason.
A little older I’d say the Tiffany Aching series by Terry Pratchett. Just a great depiction of witches and helping people, etc.
Hunger games is good. Some nice leftist dog whistles, that or I read too much into it.
Jack London books as well, would be for a little older. Always at least vaguely leftist.
thanks
From my experience, I did ‘Of Mice and Men’ in school at 13. Took some explaining to fully understand all the implications, but it was a good read. To be honest I consider this book my first baby step into leftism (“Severely neurodivergent people could live a healthy, contributive life if society cared? Society can discriminate against whole peoples who just have their own dreams and are normal nice people?! Criminals can be good caring people?!? Rich property owners are predisposed to being exploitative, abusive bastards?!?!”). Also eventually led me to read Grapes of Wrath, though probably not for most <16 year olds in the immediacy.
For younger ages I’d totally recommend Dr Seuss (despite his problematic wartime cartoons). For leftism specifically - I recall Sneetches and The Lorax (the original obviously), Sneetches calls out racism and fast fashion (and the way capitalists happily profit off sown divisions), and the Lorax obviously is a great criticism of capitalism in its entirety, he probably did others I don’t recall right now.
