Link

Hm, these "Foundation of Economic Education" folks don't sound too bad...

The Foundation for Economic Education is listed as a partner organization of the Charles Koch Institute.[3]

Lol

To sum up the vid:

It's not actually communism, it's democratic participation in a cooperative, classless society with the goal of meeting each other's needs and contributing to the greater whole!

:engels-wut:

It's also not new! Early societies have done this and certain groups of people do it today!

:marx-hi:

I suppose the response to these kinds of bad faith arguments is "Cool, maybe it's not communism. So why are we not choosing this over Capitalism then?"

(Admittedly, I haven't watched the show so maybe he is right and Jackson is not really a Communist society, just not with the arguments he presented.)

  • duderium [he/him]
    ·
    2 years ago

    I watch and enjoy the show. The first few episodes were thoroughly fascist, but then we had the heartwarming gay dudes loving each other episode, and now we have the communism good episode. It honestly didn’t seem critical of communism at all to me; the only issue was that fucking American flags were in every shot and one of the characters mentioned that she had used to be an assistant DA. As with Andor, liberal showrunners seem to recognize that people enjoy communist slop for some weird reason.

    • grey_wolf_whenever [he/him]
      ·
      2 years ago

      Yeah, its defanged media communism. Its nice, I liked Andor too, but its not exactly theory (which is fine its just entertainment)

      • Mardoniush [she/her]
        ·
        2 years ago

        There's a fair bit of theory in Andor, but it's in the same way The Good Place had philosophy, very surface level to anyone with even a passing acquaintance.

        • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
          ·
          2 years ago

          I thought one of the nicer things about The Good Place (and also Andor) was how they broke the surface and did actually hit some harder notes.

          Yeah, it was still undergrad level discourse. But that's a few steps above the "philosophy / revolutionary history for sixth graders" shit I'd seen everywhere else. Really, anything that wasn't a three hour long Marvel Adventurers advertisement for the local military recruiter has been a refreshing change of pace.