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
All mythologies were written by people in ancient times under essentially slave based economies or for say Norse stuff early mineral times and those myths were transcribed from folklore by like…the guy who could read and write and then assembles usually by a different culture later on. Norse myths were written in the early midevsl period but were for sure orally told much earlier for example and Homer wasn’t writing about his contemporaries. Historically existing myths inherently tend to come from a time well before a Marxist framework would be relevant, comminism is a proposed system to emerge out of capitalism and if the early bourgeois revolutions hadn’t overthrown the monarchal powers and the mercantile class not taken over then we’d probably still be trying to get liberalism done cause that was the class conflict du jour, it’s an historic process. Honestly Christianity probably comes closest, which is no surprise, Marx lived in a very Christian time