American author Suzanne Collins' dystopian book The Hunger Games was published in 2008.

It is
written from the viewpoint of 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives in the North American republic
of Panem in a post-apocalyptic future. The nation of Panem is divided into 12 distinct districts, each
of which is governed by the Capitol, when the novel opens. Two young male and female
representatives are required to participate in the "Hunger Games," an annual televised competition
that is broadcast across Panem. When Primrose Everdeen, age 12, is selected to take part, her 16-
year-old sister, Katniss Everdeen, offers to take Primrose's spot beside Peeta Melark. They travel
to the Capitol where they train and are ready to face off against the hardest tributes, some of whom
have been training for their whole lives, with the help of chaperone Effie Trinket and mentor
Haymitch Abernathy.
The connection of class, racism, gender, and political power is made abundantly obvious in The
Hunger Games, which also explores land relations. It is possible to observe how each of these
issues is related to capitalism. The Games itself are one of the most prominent examples of a
class-defining position in society. The Games are not simply a lucrative, ostensibly privatized
enterprise, benefiting parties like sponsors and fashion designers, but the likelihood of winning is
also affected by qualities like District. The second point is best illustrated by career tributes,
which depict a middle class that is a metaphor for American society and is characterized as the
lap dogs of the Capitol. These people have spent their entire lives receiving training for the games
and, as a result of living in wealthy districts, have a greater chance of finding sponsors. The
sponsorship may be compared to parental support in situations like unpaid internships, when
people from working-class backgrounds can struggle, and the training could be viewed through
the lens of private tuition or schools. Because of this, the Games, like the capitalist illusion of
meritocracy, may appear fair on the surface but are actually heavily influenced by background.
The death of Rue in The 74th Games may have been the most powerful scene since it
demonstrated that persecution of any kind matters. The career tributes, who killed Rue, are all
white, which fits with how The Capitol is portrayed in popular culture, especially in the movies.
Rue's District can be seen as a portrayal of southern American states due to the district's frequent
use of black characters, its primary industry being agricultural, and canon artwork. Therefore, it
might be argued that Rue's death represents lynching or other more extensive acts of white
supremacist terror, which have historically and now occurred in capitalist society. In line with our
society, power is concentrated not just with white people but also in largely white
neighborhoods.
In The Hunger Games, class is quite apparent in a way that it is not always in our culture.
Aesthetics do not always accurately reflect class in our society because the middle classes
frequently fetishize or appropriate proletarian aesthetics. This is because the media, which is a
component of the Ideological State Apparatus, frequently tries to hide inequality. The Hunger
Games literally demonstrates nauseating bourgeois excess. In this sense, it is possible to view The
Hunger Games as exposing what is typically concealed, which makes it much simpler to reach the
end of a proletariat revolution.
In addition, at first glance, the Capitol and capitalists appear to be in complete control. Large-
scale social policy changes are directly impacted by corporate lobbying, like that of ALEC, and the
state controls the police and army. The majority of wealth is concentrated in the Capitol, which is
only governed by its own people. But upon closer examination, the contradiction becomes
apparent—our labor both strengthens and weakens them. This is what Katniss demonstrates, and
the text as a whole demonstrates that capitalism, which was created to be a dystopian society
that is repressive and authoritarian, cannot be changed and must be eliminated. Throughout the
entire world, a shadow looms. Abolition is needed because reformism has failed us.