Can Dialectics Break Bricks?, a film about class struggle of the proletariat against state-capitalist bureaucracy done via kung-fu cinema. It was made by the French underground group the Situationists in 1972. I highly recommend it for its revolutionary content, unique delivery, and humour.
It mentions many libertarian socialist thinkers and revolutionaries.
The Working Class Goes to Heaven (La classe operaia va in paradiso).
A disciplined, Stakhanovite worker, after losing a finger in a factory accident, becomes aware of his alienated condition and starts supporting direct action.
Critical of both the unions (who are preoccupied only with maintaining the status quo and winning small 'victories') and the radical students (lost in their fetishism of abstract theory).
I'd have let Jackson torture the shit out of Sheen's kids. There's a rather ironic line in there about the US being better since democracy/Jackson would go on trial afterwards.
Schadenfreude!
SPOILERS:
I liked how that scene illuminated the shit morality the other characters had: Torture one guy? Sure. Slit his wife's throat? Pfft, go for it. Torture his kids? What kind of monster are you?!
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it didn't "take me back" but alan arkin is worth watching in anything.
A disciplined, Stakhanovite worker, after losing a finger in a factory accident, becomes aware of his alienated condition and starts supporting direct action.
Reminds me a bit of my friend Chris. Then again he was like that before he lost his pinkie.
Loses his finger to the machine, boss calls asking him to come back into work on the day of surgery.
Looper. What actually is this genre called 'sci-fi'? I mean, fact is stranger than fiction, it would be more appropriate to name it ' sci-fact ' ? The propositions of any fiction are nothing more than a real factual desire for change, it is a psuedo-metaphor for revolution, a work of détournement..
HG Wells did this 100 years ago, then Butterfly Effect, Looper was still an interesting repeat of an age old meditation, that of cause and effect, moral obligations, the things that make us human, some dry wit mixed with a self-absorption in ones own identity.
I downloaded '1492', Ridley Scott's historical masterpierce, I love the experience of discovery, of being surprised, and therefore savouring a sensual experience, like a peasant that first tastes caviar and champagné, or holding a high powered rifle, these things belong to heroes, which we are all capable of being, we need the will, but I have scars as my passport, these are experiences that cannot be,,,deleted,,,hah,, I told a Catholic priest who loved my spirit and wanted to make a priest out of me, in the 70's, but I enjoyed sandoz lsd and pink rock cocktails mainlined, I mixed with the rabble, they were my bothers and sisters, society had become so dreary,to go out into the ocean without any system was freedom or death, but it was noble atleast, and required no cleaning up, hah! This is Columbus's spirit, the nuance that Ridley Scott imparted to an interpretation of a much politicized cultural historical clash is always going to invite critiques of neo-colonialism,,, is that term almost obsolete?
Just watched Rebellion in Patagonia. Really depressing film about the FORA being massacred in the 1920s. Think an Argentine Land and Freedom but with fewer trots, and no women, and where no one gets away.
Zero Dark Thirty. Everyone (mostly the media) made such a big deal about it that I decided to pay the $1.75 to watch it. My liberal friends refuse to even go near it, so I don't know how the "general public" felt about this, but I think that if you have a soul you'll come out thinking that everyone who is anyone when it comes to U.S. foreign policy is a psychopath; people willing to do exactly what their enemy does, and then some, for "God and country" (that phrase is actually in the movie). In the end the rah-rah-rah, flag waving, quasi-fascist (or perhaps blatantly fascist) ideology ends up backfiring.
Zero Dark Thirty. Everyone (mostly the media) made such a big deal about it that I decided to pay the $1.75 to watch it. My liberal friends refuse to even go near it, so I don't know how the "general public" felt about this, but I think that if you have a soul you'll come out thinking that everyone who is anyone when it comes to U.S. foreign policy is a psychopath; people willing to do exactly what their enemy does, and then some, for "God and country" (that phrase is actually in the movie). In the end the rah-rah-rah, flag waving, quasi-fascist (or perhaps blatantly fascist) ideology ends up backfiring.
Maybe fitting then that this dude with downs syndrome was suffocated to death by pigs at one of the screenings. http://thepeoplesrecord.com/post/43367912794/police-murder-man-movie-theater-for-disobeying
Ethos wrote:
Zero Dark Thirty. Everyone (mostly the media) made such a big deal about it that I decided to pay the $1.75 to watch it. My liberal friends refuse to even go near it, so I don't know how the "general public" felt about this, but I think that if you have a soul you'll come out thinking that everyone who is anyone when it comes to U.S. foreign policy is a psychopath; people willing to do exactly what their enemy does, and then some, for "God and country" (that phrase is actually in the movie). In the end the rah-rah-rah, flag waving, quasi-fascist (or perhaps blatantly fascist) ideology ends up backfiring.Maybe fitting then that this dude with downs syndrome was suffocated to death by pigs at one of the screenings. http://thepeoplesrecord.com/post/43367912794/police-murder-man-movie-theater-for-disobeying
I wish I could say I was surprised... Thanks for the link, though.
A reportback of a IWW picket in Minneapolis of Chicago-Lake Liquors, which fired 5 organizers in April 2013. More information can be found...
An important zine on rape culture in the anarchist milieu and what tends to happen during accountability processes stressing survivor autonomy.
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An article by John O'Reilly on how to handle people with bad ideas for an organization.
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I'd have let Jackson torture the shit out of Sheen's kids. There's a rather ironic line in there about the US being better since democracy/Jackson would go on trial afterwards.