My lingering feeling that he sucks/is an op is growing. I’ve long figured that nobody truly subversive would be getting published by the BBC. The majority of his latest work is a borderline anti communist hit piece tbh.

  • captcha [any]
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    4 years ago

    He is sort of a natural moth-light for leftists and Marxists not because of his opinions but because his analysis is a familiar dialectic:

    These people believe X and have material interests Y so they do Z, but these other people believe A and have material interests in B so they do C in response to Z. Etc etc. That sort of analysis is rare in documentaries. Candy coat it with some trippy archive footage and western Marxists gobble it up.

    If anything he's a dialectical idealist in a way. Not like he believes the material world is an idea just that ideas shape the world more than material interests do.

    • glimmer_twin [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I do think his work is extremely dialectical, you might have hit the nail on the head about why it appeals to marxists there.

      If anything he’s a dialectical idealist in a way. Not like he believes the material world is an idea just that ideas shape the world more than material interests do.

      Adam Curtis is a Hegelian confirmed