• SaniFlush [any, any]
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    3 years ago

    The original idea of zombies came from slaves who feared being worked to death, then being forced to labor and toil beyond death...

    • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      then it became the fear of "totalitarianism" turning everybody into a mindless horde, then the critique of consumerism we see in the romero movies, and after that we see the shift to the post-apoc survivalist genre. with zac snyder's romero remakes representing a decidedly libertarian and reactionary take on the subject, whereas train to busan does the based thing and turns the zombie apocalypse movie into a socialist parable about the vital need for collective action and altruism.

      • SaniFlush [any, any]
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        3 years ago

        Getting our shit appropriated is a basic fact of contemporary socialism