John Steinbeck novel about working class exploitation during the Depression that sparked the poster's leftist politics, described as brocialist lit 101 with beautiful prose
"The Grapes of Wrath was definitely responsible for sparking my leftist politics. I read it when I was 16 or 17 and it broke me. It's so good. I try to read it once every couple years, it's actually super engaging because Steinbeck has really beautiful prose about the working class being horribly exp"
"The same goes for *The Grapes Of Wrath* - a story that will provide much richer understanding of capitalism's dehumanizing effects than any pamphlet handed by political activists on campus."