I've seen The Corporation, Manufacturing Consent and Micheal Moore's films. Any others you recommend? I have a lot of time to kill.
Edit - if my comments duplicate at any time, sorry. I have to use a vpn to access the site and its not very stable.
- Hoop Dreams - about black kids from the inner city in Chicago trying to make it in Basketball, shows really well how race and class keep people down
- Harlan County, USA - striking Kentucky coal miners
- The Act of Killing - Indonesia's purge of suspected communists
- The Revolution Will Not Be Televised - follows an attempted coup on Chavez
- The Take - Argentine workers taking over a factory and running it themselves
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Yes. I'm obviously waiting for them to address the themes of class struggle in Titanic so I have an excuse to rewatch thart.
Here's a youtube playlist that has the entire audiobook of David Graeber's Debt: The First 5000 years
Oh thank you so much. I've read bullshit jobs but never got to this one. I've got a pile of books on my Kindle but I definitely don't have enough for the month. Much appreciated thank you.
It has its shortcomings, but Hypernormalization is good to watch at least once.
Have you seen the films by The Yes Men? There are three documentaries which I find very entertaining. Their whole gimmick was that they posed as neoliberal academics and corporate shills and got themselves invited to real news shows and conferences where they could present their over-the-top satires of neoliberal ideas. For example, in one of their "pranks", they go to a conference and present their proposal to create tardigrade-shaped survival suits for rich people to survive an ecological catastrophe.
The second one, The Yes Men Fix the World, is available on YouTube. Which is lucky, because it's my favourite of the three.
I know Chapos are skeptical of symbolic actions, and you could argue that the things The Yes Men did weren't especially useful, but at least their symbolic gestures include some substantive criticism of capitalism, and I think the movies are entertaining either way.
Not "leftist" per se but anything by Adam Curtis
Edit: Get well soon comrade o7
You should dig into some of Adam Curtis' stuff. Hypernormalization, Bitter Lake, The Mayfair Set, Century of the Self.
Not a documentary video as much as perhaps a "documentary podcast" but I started listening to Blowback the other day after putting it off for a bit and I really like it.
the pervert's guide to ideology
not a doc, rather an ideological interpretation of some movies by Slavoj Zizek.
what you might take away from it is the necessity of ideology. it's cool, slow but cool.
I'll edit a link below.
https://archive.org/details/2013ThePervertsGuideToIdeology/2013+-+The+Pervert’s+Guide+to+Ideology.mp4
