There was one part of this reading that I wanted to use, however, i’m not sure i’ll end up using this article at all. Also because it is another reading that I can use to agree with my argument. However, it does present a good argument for Parable of the Sower and other Afro-futurist readings as a form of raising class consciousness meaning becoming more aware of the differences between a higher class and lower class and their incompatibility.

Scott, Jonathan. “Octavia Butler and the Base for American Socialism.” Octavia Butler and the Base for American Socialism | Socialism & Democracy, sdonline.org/issue/42/octavia-butler-and-base-american-socialism. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.

This reading has the same situation as above. Maybe if I ended up writing a 12- pager.

I found this article helpful in its exploration of the very real setting of Parable of the Sower, Los Angeles. Not very real in that it accurately represents Los Angeles today, but, that the conditions in Butler’s Novel were not created out of thin air, but came from some preconceived notion of “paradises” like California and Florida. I’m hoping to rely on this article for counter-arguments because of the way it analyzes class and capital, which I find to be incompatible with how Butler presents the role of government and state. Butler looks to the historic atrocities of U.S. Capitalism and creates a religion separate from all government in order to prepare for all sorts of change, Smith argues that this very body can be used to create a more just system or society in places like California which has a historically bloody history. Butler’s novel refers to the landscape of California as a tool for the need of something like “eco-anarchism,” complete separation and rejection of state, not as motive to restructure Lauren’s world.