Working Class perspective on books, movies, video games and other art.
Adam Jones’ book Genocide, War Crimes and the West: History and Complicity is an incredibly revealing anthology containing accounts of atrocities carried out by Western imperial capitalism and those who serve its interests abroad. Articles describing the little-known and little-understood… Read More ›
Basic Facts Reds is a 1981 film about the life of American journalist-turned-revolutionary John Reed (Warren Beatty). It functions at once as a political and romantic biography of Reed as well as a historical account of the October Revolution in… Read More ›
Of all the reactionary squawking against the theory of Marxism, of the need for and viability of revolution, no worry is more prevalent than that of “human nature.” According to the capitalist, human beings are fundamentally greedy, ego-centric beings who… Read More ›
In a world where the grossest forms of capitalist exploitation are ignored or rendered mundane by a bourgeois media machine fueled on free market fetishism and “news” about as enlightening as a lobotomy, it is refreshing to see a decent… Read More ›
Today is the 4th of July, a holiday celebrated all over the nation as the date of American Independence from the British crown. I was considering burning an American flag to protest US foreign policy, imperial aggression, indigenous holocaust, sponsorship… Read More ›
Friedrich von Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom is a popular book from the Austrian School of economics. It is the scripture of classical liberalism and the right, much more so than Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations. The thesis of… Read More ›
Basic Plot In a world where people live their lives vicariously by manipulating cyborgs called “surrogates” from the comfort of their own homes, FBI agent Tom Greer (Bruce Willis) is put to the task of tracking down a killer wielding… Read More ›
“Terrorist vs. Freedom Fighter” as a Plot Device The 2005 film version of V for Vendetta directed by James McTeigue and produced by the Wachowski Brothers is the most obvious example of the increasing desire for heroic cinematic revolutionaries. Films… Read More ›
Part VI of VI: The Chinese Great Leap Forward Glenn Beck ends his series with an attack on the Chinese Revolution. He claims that the Chinese leader Mao Zedong was the greatest mass murderer of all time, even worse than… Read More ›
Personal Reflection: “The Reds” as the Good Guys I was about ten years old when my mother took the family to see Enemy at the Gates (2001). For one, this was the first time in my life that I was… Read More ›
Part V of VI: Castro, Che & Cuba The “Cult of Che” & the Execution of Rojas One of the last parts of Beck’s documentary contains a truly disturbing element far above the mere falsification of history we have… Read More ›
Basic Plot Extract, written and directed by Mike Judge, involves the personal and business struggles of a small business factory owner named Joel Reynolds (Jason Bateman) as he tries to sell his extract business to the General Mills corporation. There… Read More ›
On this day in the year 1848, the Communist Manifesto was published. The book shook the society of the bourgeoisie to its very foundations and raised the consciousness of proletarians across the world. Karl Marx and Frederich Engels exposed the… Read More ›
Part IV of VI: Hunger & Holocaust – Glenn Beck on Stalin Glenn Beck begins his segment on Joseph Stalin by calling the Ukrainian famine in the Soviet Union a genocide. He states: “Most know that the horrors of the… Read More ›
Part III of VI: How Beck Turned Marx Into A Common Racist Glenn Beck and Jonah Goldberg cite examples of Marx’s supposed “anti-Semitism” in connection with Hitler. What Goldberg is referring to are Marx’s words on the economic status of… Read More ›
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