I guess I’m looking for myth that promotes communal ideas, relates to worker alienation, etc.? I think of the book of Acts in the bible, that’s somewhere between an example of how christians are supposed to live and a defense of paul before he’s executed, right? but incidentally the book has ideas that can be carried forward and developed into a marxist-friendly understanding of how to live, even if it’s loaded in stuff a well read marxist would find objectionable, there will be no perfect examples and i find it tiresome to get lost in pedantry about it so spare me!!!

I also wanna write some. Like “hades began to push and proliferate communism because he was horrified by the trauma of the humans coming through his gates and despised our cruel fates” feels like a decent basis for a mythic story idk

look i dont wanna get into the relationship of myth and religion to marxism, not really, i just like writing fake myth and i need an idea of what’s out there in order to make something worthy of the concept

  • sneak100 [she/her, they/them]English
    6•11 days ago

    I’d recommend looking into the story of the making of The Great Law of Peace of the Hadenosaunee, which is itself part of the law:

    (from Kayanerenko:wa The Great Law of Peace by Kayanesenh Paul Williams)

    Upon first reading or hearing the Great Law, one could easily conclude that the story of how the Peacemaker brought people and nations together is a pleasant legend, but not law. As a legend, it includes entertaining stories of the hero making a magical stone canoe; tricking a cannibal into changing his evil ways; surviving a great fall from a tree into raging waters; devising enchanting songs; and confronting monsters and evil wizards. These do not seem to be the stuff of law. A North American lawyer looking for the Haudenosaunee constitution might conclude that the true lawmaking only began once the Peacemaker had gathered all the chiefs and clan mothers together in one place, and began to identify and create legislative authorities and structures. It would be easy to conclude this, but it would be wrong.

    The Kayanerenko:wa is all law. Every part of it is law.

    The story of how the Peacemaker brought the people together is not just a story. Certainly it is full of metaphors and lessons, but the story also contains many of the fundamental concepts and principles of the law. All great messages are taught by metaphor. Jesus, in his “Good Message” (which is what “Gospel” Means in Middle English), resorted to “parables.” Buddha told stories (and, as the Acoma Pueblo scholar Simon Ortiz said: “There are no truths, only stories”). Centuries later, history and metaphor become mixed. The message remains constant. Metaphor - the ability of human beings to think bridges between different concepts - is essential to visualising any legal system.

    The meta-narrative of the Great Law provides the tone and spirit: the determination that the bloodshed must stop, and will stop.