Animal Farm
The animals drive the farmer out and take over the farm. Orwell's 1945 fable is about what happens after that.
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The Iron Heel
by Jack London
Industrial wealth consolidates into an oligarchy and crushes the movement trying to oppose it.
- 1908
The story, briefly
Spoiler-freeLondon imagines class power becoming an organized political regime. Revolution, propaganda, violence, and oligarchy collide on a much larger scale than Orwell's farm.
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Class power crushing revolution
A blunt early dystopia about the distance between political promises and power.
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