The Washington Times reports a left-wing youth organization is trying to make of the Hunger Games trilogy a jeremiad on income inequality. To be sure, the Hunger Games' dystopian nation Panem has vast income inequality.
Panem also has a totalitarian government, which the films remind us is "the real enemy." An American can see the books as a sort of parable based on how the Reconstruction Era in our former Confederate States might look if it happened in the 2060s instead of the 1860s.
A European might see another parallel - the way the victors dealt with loser Germany following World War I. The Treaty of Versailles handled Germany the way Panem's capital treats the 12 rebellious districts, minus the levy of young gladiators. Many blame Versailles for enabling Hitler and triggering World War II, just as Panem's treatment of the districts eventually triggers a second rebellion.
What the Hunger Games books and films really are is good entertainment. Trying to make them vehicles for political and economic messages is the equivalent of looking at Rorschach ink blots and seeing there what you wish to see.
