In Equestria, harmony prevails. Earth ponies toil in the fields, pegasi control the weather and serve the homeland, Canterlot lives in luxury, and Princess Celestia once again thanks the Mane Six for saving the country. The Princess of Friendship recently even acquired her own castle.
Suddenly, an unexpectedly appearing map sends the friends on a mission to an unusual village. Little did they suspect that the red flags scattered throughout the village were not placed there without reason, and that they had arrived at the beginning of the Socialist Revolution.
The AU tag was added because the story of Sunburst and Starlight's friendship, and subsequently the history of Our Town, differs from the canonical outcome. Additionally, the story suggests that Celestia and Luna were not alicorns from birth.
Fanfiction on Russian-language resources:
https://ficbook.net/readfic/018d0835-5612-746a-92ea-f6443cb86edd
https://ponyfiction.org/story/17562/
Translation performed by:
https://www.fimfiction.net/user/535037/oranzinispegasas
This is a pretty cool concept for a story. Haven't read it yet. Will bookmark. Also the cover art is dope.
Lenin’s ideology has come to Equestria!
NO MORE RULER OVER US, NO MORE SERVANT UNDER US, ONLY WORKER!
UPHOLD THE STARLIGHTISM IDEA
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I like the "make everyone access to equality", but it's too bad she forgot that Equestria has more creatures than just Ponies, so it makes her words only apply to a specific group, "kind of" a NazBol LOL
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Very interesting.
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Five negative votes? That was fast.
Apart from that, it is an interesting job, success!
Interesting concept here. Will save for later.
as a translator who's not exactly a fan of all this communism stuff, let me tell you, this fic is like the cool kid at the party(maybe)🤷♂️
I came here expecting a parody of communism and misinterpretations, but it was good, a bit punitive however, Mao needs to touch the heart of the starlight, although I personally don't think that an equestrian communism needs to make everyone alicorns I still think it is an interesting interpretation.
That said, I'm working on my own story in which a communist will bring about a revolution in Equestria, so I'll share some observations I made to help your plot:
1-you are really right regarding the distribution of work by species in equestria, I often felt that the earth ponies were left with dirty, difficult and less specialized work, while the pegasus seemed to often be in work related to their athletic ability and of performing medium-specialization manual work, I finally felt that the unicorns were subdivided into 4: those excluded like Trixie, those who are academics, those who are experts in specialized manual work and the nobles who are above everyone. That said, this is borne out by how the educational system doesn't seem that good for the Earth ponies (for example, Maud Pie is the only pony at her graduation), the pegasus seem to have a big focus on weather and athletics in education, and the largest school in Equestria is a school for unicorns.
2-One of two: either equestria is an absolute monarchy and basically the people and the capitalists have no say in the decisions of the state which is basically the property of celestia and the nobles or it is a constitutional monarchy and celestia holds political power while the capitalists and nobles They are the only ones with the power to speak in government decisions.
3-Equestria is basically the largest nation in this world and the other nations are quite small and/or poor, with some having almost no government, this makes me wonder if Equestria had a role in the rest of the world being like this.
4-You live in a capitalist world, so just observe with a critical eye to know all the contradictions we live every day and all the suffering we go through, in equestria they also exist, but they are less visible due to the whole thing of being the greatest country in the world and the entire ideology of harmony sweeps everything under the rug, just throw the shit in the fan and expose everything.
Intriguing. I take a few issues with the worldbuilding and wording of some stuff, but overall, intriguing.
We shall watch your career with great interest.
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Thanks for your feedback! There really are enough problems in Equestria, if we put aside the external tinsel. Of course, alicornization is a radical solution to the problem of inequality, essentially destroying the previous races of ponies, and at the same time traditions. But for Starlight, this was the only way out to not only undermine the existing state order, but also attract many new supporters to her movement. Although she makes mistakes, Starlight wants to build a new Equestria, where Lenin’s principle will be observed: “From each according to his ability, to each according to his work!”
Not at all what I expected but… I liked it keep it up it’s great
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I personally would like to see A tho i am aware it's hard to write.
B could be interesting too but as an EAW fan I lean towards A.
B,
In my opinion, a social revolution can only be achieved with the support of the people, a civil war can only make things worse and make everyone believe that your ideas rely on violence instead of peace, violence should be the final solution or even not be an option as well
I think coop would be cool, but make it harder due to factionalism. After all, she turn everyone in her town into powerful beings. Some group of them would want to “build” socialism by their own way
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Alicornization of ponies using Starlight's method does not add powerful magic to them, moreover, if the peaceful option is chosen, it will be canceled due to unnecessaryness, since Starlight considers the army of alicorns as a weapon against the princesses if they abandon socialism. But I will take note of the idea about factions in the Communist Party.
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The realistic one is A, I'd like to think that Celestia and Luna are good people, so I'd like B, but I think the funniest and most plausible idea is to start with A and end with B
This is literally you.
If you from the get-go say I am a communist and this is a pro-communist piece of work, people will inevitably set up their mental defenses.
Though I am not saying it is a bad thing, being so open. I am guilty of that myself. I am of the believe all media is inherently political and I do enjoy my occasionally overtly political works. There’s just some problems with overtly political fiction. It needs to be entertaining. And preaching to your readers bores them, and if they are bored they won’t continue to read. If they want to get preached to, they would just pick up State and Revolution and look at it from the source. Making an entertaining work that makes your readers think is hard, but it’s the only way to make something like this last.
Let’s look at Lovecraft for example. Lovecraft was a huge racist. But he also was a good writer. If you read his work, you wouldn’t notice the xenophobic, individualistic messaging behind it in the first reading. It’s insidious, but entertaining. His work isn’t overtly political, but you get the idea.
Now, I don’t expect the highest quality of a fanfiction and translation. It’s unpaid work after all. And if you’re just working on your hobby that’s alright too. However, if you want to write something that reaches someone who isn’t already sympathetic to communist ideals, you should always keep the story in mind. Make interesting characters, motivations, plot, prosa and so on.
Personally, your describing of the world is lacking. Apply the principle ‘show, don’t tell’ a bit more.
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Thanks for your feedback! I already realized that my story is more reminiscent of revolutionary propaganda than an alternative view of Starlight Glimmer as a communist. That's why I'm going to rewrite the first chapters, focusing more on plot and characters than politics.
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