Anarchist Fiction dot Net

I just read Magón’s very short piece The Soldier, as translated by Paul Sharkey. It’s very simple and plain, a basic parable of the ways in which the working class is slave to the owning class. It tells of an interaction between a poor farmer and a poor soldier, and the ways in which the soldier is being duped by the rich.

It’s a classic and unabashed example of fiction-as-propaganda that makes no pretense of objectivity. It exists purely to make a point about class relations.

Tags: Mexico, Parable, Propaganda, Short Story