Watch the trailer for Judas and the Black Messiah, a movie about the betrayal and assassination of Fred Hampton, chairman of the Black Panther Party. Starrin...
Looks kinda good honestly. I wonder if the words "socialist" or "marxist" or "communist" will make an appearance.
honestly, i'm not that cynical for one simple reason: the current rise in revolutionary thought, though imo very overstated, still has kind of created an actual demographic (whether those claiming to favor revolution are being real or just in for the aesthetics is another matter)
and as the old saying goes, a capitalist will sell you the rope you're gonna hang him with if he thinks it'll make him money
not only that, those people are arrogant as fuck. i could definitely see them going "yea yea, sure, kids are talking about revolution now, who the fuck cares, they won't do shit. let's make some money off this before they grow up"
this is why i don't like comparisons with the malcolm x movie, we're living a very different cultural context right now
Lenin also said, "The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them." You're probably right though. This will play out more like the opening of State and Revolution - with a blunting of Hampton's revolutionary character and perversion of his message.
That said, it is amusing to see more "radical" publications springing up. I think there is a real anarchy of production going on here. There is a growing revolutionary counterculture, and with it, a growing untapped market for revolutionary cultural products and materials. While Condé Nast is shutting down forums with a revolutionary edge on Reddit, they are allowing glowing praise of Marx to be published in Teen Vogue. We have a growing cottage industry of leftist magazines, podcasts, and film springing up. Some of it is legitimate agitation, while some of it is nothing more than capitalists trying to commodify an untapped market (i.e. Ché Guevara tee shirts). There is a lot of potential for opportunism here, and we should hesitate to embrace any of it, but it is fascinating to watch.
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honestly, i'm not that cynical for one simple reason: the current rise in revolutionary thought, though imo very overstated, still has kind of created an actual demographic (whether those claiming to favor revolution are being real or just in for the aesthetics is another matter)
and as the old saying goes, a capitalist will sell you the rope you're gonna hang him with if he thinks it'll make him money
not only that, those people are arrogant as fuck. i could definitely see them going "yea yea, sure, kids are talking about revolution now, who the fuck cares, they won't do shit. let's make some money off this before they grow up"
this is why i don't like comparisons with the malcolm x movie, we're living a very different cultural context right now
Lenin also said, "The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them." You're probably right though. This will play out more like the opening of State and Revolution - with a blunting of Hampton's revolutionary character and perversion of his message.
That said, it is amusing to see more "radical" publications springing up. I think there is a real anarchy of production going on here. There is a growing revolutionary counterculture, and with it, a growing untapped market for revolutionary cultural products and materials. While Condé Nast is shutting down forums with a revolutionary edge on Reddit, they are allowing glowing praise of Marx to be published in Teen Vogue. We have a growing cottage industry of leftist magazines, podcasts, and film springing up. Some of it is legitimate agitation, while some of it is nothing more than capitalists trying to commodify an untapped market (i.e. Ché Guevara tee shirts). There is a lot of potential for opportunism here, and we should hesitate to embrace any of it, but it is fascinating to watch.