Renegade Cut made a pretty good video discussing Disco Elysium (alongside other ACAB-related topics) and he also talks about doing a fascist play through and contrasting it with his commie play through. If you haven't already watched it: Disco Elysium - All Hobocops Are ... | Renegade Cut
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It's been a while since I watched it so I had actually forgotten how it's also largely about the history of policing, the fact that it's purpose is to protect capital and capital interests, the instituti9nal protections they enjoy and the injustice they perpetuate today. All with Disco Elysium as a backdrop and reference. Good shit imo.
Renegade Cut is phenomenal and I eagerly devour every video he puts out.
Kay and Skittles did an excellent video about it as well where he talks about how a game like that could only have been written by well informed Marxists, because everyone in the game is deeply self aware and honest about their ideology.
Yep, Leon is awesome. Discovered him a few years ago as one of those rare times I was enjoying some random but impressive film analysis only to realize that coincidentaly I was watching an actual radical leftist.
Oh nice, I have not seen the one you linked. Will definitely check it out, thanks. And yeah, the people who wrote Disco Elysium read theory. And it shines through beautifully when you get to see it.
I was enjoying some random but impressive film analysis only to realize that coincidentaly I was watching an actual radical leftist
Yeah a few other channels like that were instrumental in it all finally clicking for me and figuring out I was a communist. That maybe I was always a communist I just didn't have the proper vocabulary to understand my own ideology fully.
What other channels made things click for you, if you don't mind sharing? I couldn't even really watch youtube until like 2018 (bandwidth capped rural internet). By then I was already a commie, albeit with some tenacious lingering brainworms I'd like to think have since been extracted. So Renegade Cut was just like this great find... felt like finally spotting a true leftist in the wild and even better, it was someone whose work I already liked for other reasons and on top of that, someone whose radicalization process I could really identify with.
I hear you on long ago being leftist at heart, even if you couldn't always articulate it. Starting out with a healthy commitment to empathy goes a long way, I think, in at least questioning a lot of the more disgusting and obvious contradictions of capitalism.
Can't think of many off the top of my head, since I've consumed so much of that stuff since 2016, but the Matt Christman rant about eco-fascism after the Charlottesville car attack was a big oh shit moment, and while some of his framing is sort of lib another one about the inefficacies of liberalism to fight fascism is the Innuendo Studios series the Alt-Right playbook. Also ContraPoints helped me expunge a lot of deeply rooted and unexamined transphobia. Jacob Gellar is also a great leftist media critic.
Renegade Cut made a pretty good video discussing Disco Elysium (alongside other ACAB-related topics) and he also talks about doing a fascist play through and contrasting it with his commie play through. If you haven't already watched it: Disco Elysium - All Hobocops Are ... | Renegade Cut
Edit: It's been a while since I watched it so I had actually forgotten how it's also largely about the history of policing, the fact that it's purpose is to protect capital and capital interests, the instituti9nal protections they enjoy and the injustice they perpetuate today. All with Disco Elysium as a backdrop and reference. Good shit imo.
Renegade Cut is phenomenal and I eagerly devour every video he puts out.
Kay and Skittles did an excellent video about it as well where he talks about how a game like that could only have been written by well informed Marxists, because everyone in the game is deeply self aware and honest about their ideology.
Yep, Leon is awesome. Discovered him a few years ago as one of those rare times I was enjoying some random but impressive film analysis only to realize that coincidentaly I was watching an actual radical leftist.
Oh nice, I have not seen the one you linked. Will definitely check it out, thanks. And yeah, the people who wrote Disco Elysium read theory. And it shines through beautifully when you get to see it.
Yeah a few other channels like that were instrumental in it all finally clicking for me and figuring out I was a communist. That maybe I was always a communist I just didn't have the proper vocabulary to understand my own ideology fully.
What other channels made things click for you, if you don't mind sharing? I couldn't even really watch youtube until like 2018 (bandwidth capped rural internet). By then I was already a commie, albeit with some tenacious lingering brainworms I'd like to think have since been extracted. So Renegade Cut was just like this great find... felt like finally spotting a true leftist in the wild and even better, it was someone whose work I already liked for other reasons and on top of that, someone whose radicalization process I could really identify with.
I hear you on long ago being leftist at heart, even if you couldn't always articulate it. Starting out with a healthy commitment to empathy goes a long way, I think, in at least questioning a lot of the more disgusting and obvious contradictions of capitalism.
Can't think of many off the top of my head, since I've consumed so much of that stuff since 2016, but the Matt Christman rant about eco-fascism after the Charlottesville car attack was a big oh shit moment, and while some of his framing is sort of lib another one about the inefficacies of liberalism to fight fascism is the Innuendo Studios series the Alt-Right playbook. Also ContraPoints helped me expunge a lot of deeply rooted and unexamined transphobia. Jacob Gellar is also a great leftist media critic.