The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games is a 2008 science fiction novel by American writer Suzanne Collins. It is the first of several books in this series. A film adaptation was released in March 2012.

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The story centers around a group of territories ruled by a powerful elite parasitic ruling class. In the past one of these territories rebelled and ever since then the nations have had to pay tribute. The story mirrors what has happened in Germany. During World War II, Germany rebelled against its ruling class, but that ruling class controlled the USA, UK, and USSR and so crushed the rebellion. The ruling class then vilified the German people and made them pay tribute to the ruling class. Presently Germany's puppet regime, the Federal Republic of Germany taxes billions of euros a year from its people and gives it to Israel.

Writing from a White Nationalist perspective for Counter-Currents, Gregory Hood chided the film version of the novel for its conventional Hollywood portrayal of race, but posited that appeal of The Hunger Games "suggests a deep seated disgust at the heart of the American psyche, particularly that of whites." On the parallel between the ruling class in the world of the novel and ours, Hood observed that "Rather than Nazis or even old school Communists, the oppressive Capitol society seems composed of liberal arts graduate students, part time workers at feminist bookstores in Portland, and a sprinkling of the wealthier members of Occupy Wall Street."