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Burn! 1969
Check out pp. 392-395 of Marlon Brando's Songs my Mother Taught Me for some unsavory anecdotes about Pontecorvo, but—separating the art from the artist—this is a classic unabashed Marxist film with an important reminder that "strange bedfellows" obtain for all sorts of reasons and always require serious, assiduous analyses, not kneejerk reactions and "tarnishing by association" that has become so commonplace amongst the Western left.
That is to say (in the context of this film), Britain supporting the liberation of…
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Bastar: The Naxal Story 2024
Could more anticommunist propaganda tropes have been squeezed into this film had Sudipto "Stupido" Sen desired such a thing? I doubt it.
From an obligatory shot of Walking with the Comrades to the police officer railing against "left liberals" (who apparently are the same as Maoists) to "INU" (clearly a reference to JNU) students cheerily extolling violence, the film—a dramatization of the April 2010 Maoist attack in Dantewada and the 2013 Naxal attack in Darbha valley—totally distorts reality to push…
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Israelism 2023
Not bad as a surface-level introduction to the (manufactured) proliferation of Zionism in the United States, but as the reviews I like point out, this film reeks of liberalism, suggesting that anti-Zionists and Zionists battle freely in the marketplace of ideas (obviously, the film does not take the side of the Zionists).
Historical and dialectical materialism are necessary to make full sense of the Zionist settler colonialist project, but I guess you can’t expect too much from an 80-minute film. Hopefully this can help deprogram some Zionists.
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Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat 2024
In light of the 2023 academic spat (see here and here) over King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa, a Belgian Marxist friend commented
Hochschild’s book’s merit in the first place is popular awareness of atrocities, not necessarily its scholarly perfection. On the other hand, Rood rubber: Leopold II en zijn Congo…is very well documented (because in 1985 in Belgium you would get destroyed by colonial apologists if not).
Nearly forty years later, it…
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