Currently grappling with this question myself, germany has 2-3 small ML parties, but there is one that is revisionist and doesn't support AES, but they have a bigger reach, higher budget and more (and more diverse) members

Since apathy and alienation are at an all-time high around here, I really don't know what to do

Frodo Baggins from Lotr, Hajime Hinata from Danganronpa 2

edit: Cloud Strife from the Remake comes to mind, though he doesn't rank as high as the former 2

Dark mode, but why are you asking this in this community?

Let the Dialectics guide you Lenin. - Karl Marx in A New Hope

I thought the same thing as you before, especially when I started to watch Andor. As long as you keep in mind that the ideas the characters have come from their material conditions and avoid the trope of the benevolent ruler, I don't see much that could go wrong. Really interested in what others here have to say about it.

It's pretty hard to write anything concrete that works for all possible works of fiction, but I'd say most of them are ill-suited to a character suddenly spouting ML-rhetoric. There needs to be some basis for the character's radicalization that is rooted in their material conditions. Harry Potter for example has almost no chance of achieving class consciousness, as he's quite privileged (and later on joins the wizard cops).

The benevolent ruler trope is just something I see often in fantasy, even if they mean well, it's just the reform vs. revolution argument.

Well, the conditions for communism to exist must be there. In our world, we have experience with slavery and wage-labour, as well as philosophers (Marx) that built on the ideas of previous ones (Hegel) to radically change society. The proletariat needs certain precarious conditions to achieve class consciousness and needs a vanguard. You can start your story without the vanguard though (maybe the protagonist will build the vanguard?). But to actually formulate it precisely: For the proletariat to rise up it actually needs to be exploited in the first place. Most fantasy societies will have people with different power levels, so you would need to think of an in-universe way of how they would resolve this too.

The benevolent ruler is just a trope that is loved by liberals, it's at it's core just the old reform vs. revolution argument

Thanks for the words of wisdom!

Couldn't find anything on prolewiki, anyone got some info on this war?

very based, thank you now I have something to read on the train ride