If anyone wants reccs for good Doctorow fiction with a leftist bent his recentish collection Radicalised, features the stories:

Unauthorized Bread: A woman immigrant to a slightly more fascistic US helps her neighbours hack there locked-down DRM appliances that only allow you to use specific expensive proprietary stuff like dough in breadmakers, food in ovens, detergent in washing machines(Keurig cups on steroids basically) etc

Model Minority: A Superman analogue tries to take on police racism in the US and finds out being an alien his whiteness is contingent on upholding the system

Radicalized: A cancer survivor joins a darknet organised terror group of terminally ill people and their relatives that begin bombing/attacking insurance companies and CEOs

Masque of the Red Death: (not the Poe one lol) A crypto-bro financier builds a bunker filled with supplies to the survive the apocalypse, gets on much worse than the poorer people in the city who form mutual aid networks

I highly recommend that, and Walkaway for a full length novel of his with great lefty and free software themes, also some really good trans and GNC stuff in it

If you’re a big ol’ geek like me you’ll like most of his stuff, even the older ones like Down and out in the Magic Kingdom where his politics are a bit more libertarian(he’s evolved a lot since the 90’s when that was written and in Walkaway there’s a scene that is him basically arguing with himself about right-libertarianism vs lefty anarchist socialism, with socialism coming out on top) but he’s never been scum on that front

I used to read a lot of his FOSS and digital rights stuff(how I got into the EFF lol) but not much recently so couldn’t speak to the state of his recent non-fiction

He was on QAA a few months ago to talk about enshitfacation(the concept mainly not this book) that was a good listen