My takeaway (admittedly trying to look at it from a leftist perspective) was that their attempted revolution was a failure because they knocked capitalism down a peg and expected everything to fall in place. Their organizing was shit.
That's all true, you're definitely right that the overall message of the show is very much not leftist.
Still, it seems like there exist a lot of people who are effectively dedicated to upholding the existing power structures today who were at one point (apparently) sincere activists of some far left variety. I mean "A far left activist getting disillusioned with the prospects of a true revolution eventually shifting focus to working with the powers that be to try to reach a marginally better outcome within the constraints of the seemingly inevitable status quo," could be talking about Mr Robot, or it could be talking about a particular senator from Vermont.
But yeah, the show seemed to portray this process as good though hard to accept, rather than the tragedy that we'd regard it as.
My takeaway (admittedly trying to look at it from a leftist perspective) was that their attempted revolution was a failure because they knocked capitalism down a peg and expected everything to fall in place. Their organizing was shit.
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That's all true, you're definitely right that the overall message of the show is very much not leftist.
Still, it seems like there exist a lot of people who are effectively dedicated to upholding the existing power structures today who were at one point (apparently) sincere activists of some far left variety. I mean "A far left activist getting disillusioned with the prospects of a true revolution eventually shifting focus to working with the powers that be to try to reach a marginally better outcome within the constraints of the seemingly inevitable status quo," could be talking about Mr Robot, or it could be talking about a particular senator from Vermont.
But yeah, the show seemed to portray this process as good though hard to accept, rather than the tragedy that we'd regard it as.