It's going to be a doc.
Let me know of any media or novels or artistic works that should be put in it.
I'm looking for communist creatives as well, both living and dead.
And their works, of course.
Andor. It Star Wars shit, but hear me out if you haven’t watched it.
Unlike many of the original movies and Disney movies, the show tackles more mature themes about resistance. It’s not just some fun adventure with your friends to kill the bad guy. It involves alliances with strange people, opportunists, revolutionaries. It involves characters reading and practicing theory (according to the more well versed, the fictional ideological theory espoused in the show is a direct combination of Lenin and Marx’s work). It involves class consciousness and class solidarity from the wretched of the galaxy. It’s very explicit.
The main character is also directly inspired by Stalin, albeit on some more sensationalized accounts of his robbery activities. But that’s the reality of revolution. You might be lucky enough to get some rich sponsors, but you can’t rely on them.
It depicts the brutality of it. History has shown that the ones resisting always suffer more casualties no matter how successful. Important people die with little warning and little fare because revolution isn’t just about the individual, it’s about the collective effort and sacrifices of those who join the movement even if they don’t necessarily care about the ideology. Even the IRA was used as an inspiration for the funeral inside the occupation zone.
And the evilness of the empire isn’t just some cartoon guy choking you with telekinesis. It shows the apparatus of it. From the mundane intelligence meetings to discuss the murder of people to the failsons ruining operations and even the subcontracting of oppression to imperialists who just see it as another payday.
It’s probably the only realistic depiction of revolution in not just mainstream media, but one of the most recognizable franchises on earth, and most of the inspiration is directly from leftist history. I have no idea how the writers got away with it. But apparently he won’t be involved in the second season, so we’ll see how liberal it becomes, if at all.
Gonna pirate that shit right quick before they decide to wipe it off their servers for profit.
Oh yeah, I can vouch for Andor. BTW, a Ryan Gosling cameo here. Whodda thunk
I want to meet people like this in real life. I wonder if they’re like a based Alex Jones type of guy or just really old and reads a lot
I think I still have the multipart "Leftist movies" torrent archive from the r/CTH days. lotta good ideas in there
https://mega.nz/folder/UkIkVTAa#nWqqhWQrT4PLmNC7fs1blg for the torrent files. My client showed a few active seeders still
4 parts, ~177GB of movies with leftist themes etc
And as long as I was digging that up I decided to post it separately for everyone here https://hexbear.net/post/963899
You might be interested in the subreddit and letterboxd list the OP linked there
Anything Boots Riley
The Coup - "The Guillotine" - YouTube and many more.
More music
Tom Morello's Nightwatchmen stuff
Oh, the show Damnation on NEtflix Got shit to do today, I'll try to remember to come back later and post a bunch more
Recently got turned on to Bambu, worker's party is a front to back banger
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin. Technically anarcho-communist but it takes place in an explicitly stateless, classless, moneyless society so close enough.
The movies Che pt 1 and Che pt 2
Movies - a nice big-tent list, with downloads, at www.solidaritycinema.com
Lancer is a cool mecha TTRPG written by commies with themes of a space communist government being challenged by and/or infiltrated & corrupted by fascistic, neo feudalist, and bloodthirsty corporate bodies. Very grid tactics focused I’ll warn, with free form narrative mechanics when you’re not piloting a giant robot.
/r/trueanon has a reading/watch list on their wiki, but the subreddit is private. You may look there. I'd post it here, but the site won't let me write a post that long, I guess.
His lyrics are thoroughly anti imperialist and ant capitalist but it's worth CW people that he is also gets really homophobic, misogynistic, and anti-vegan. It's frankly beneath him and I don't know why he does it. Childish shock value?
I don't speak spanish but their lyrics and beats are quite good.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
