Socialist realism was developed on the basis of Marxism pioneered by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Socialist realism was introduced to art with Zhdanov’s inaugural speech at the Union of Soviet Writers. Dealing with the economic class and inter-class conflict, the ultimate aim of socialist realism is to achieve an order in which there is no injustice and classism. That is an order where people live equally and happily. In this respect, he builds his understanding of art on the concepts of revolutionary romanticism and the positive hero. Within the understanding of revolutionary romanticism, the story of the positive hero who does not submit in the face of injustice and tries to achieve justice by taking the side of the oppressed is told within the understanding of revolutionary romanticism, which is the defender of socialism. The study aims to determine the effect of socialist realism in the Ince Memed I, II, III, and IV since Yaşar Kemal, who is an active advocate of socialism, reflects his political views in his fiction. The study was conducted with the content analysis technique, one of the qualitative research methods. Therefore, Kemal writes a novel of rebellion against injustice in society with the noble bandit profile of Ince Memed that he created. He sided with the oppressed by emphasizing the inequality between the landlord/lord-peasant in the appearance of the worker-employer relationship. In the novels, the peasants are not only harmed by the landlords but also subjected to material and moral violence by many groups, from the state apparatus to the bandits in the mountains. The exploitation of land and labor is the primary cause of the conflict between the oppressors and the oppressed. Ince Memed rebels against the disorder in society and dreams of an equal and happy world, which is the goal of socialist realism, and reveals the injustices between the peasants and the landlords through a fierce struggle.

Socialist realism, Marxism, Socialism, Yaşar Kemal, Ince Memed.