How will they ever recover from this?
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Marxists eternally BTFO
Leo Martin
David Gonzalez
That bit sort of confused me. The communists aren't really portrayed all that poorly.
Lincoln Russell
(me)
At least, the movie seemed to assume that the claim that the film industry just being an engine of capital would naturally enrage the audience for some reason, and I also got the feeling that you were supposed to cheer for the protagonist guy when he gave his little "know your place" speech.
Joshua Thompson
The absolute state of conservatives
David Jones
mein gott
Logan Turner
They're portrayed as academics and almost like dandies. They want the audience to believe that all they do is sit around in study sessions discussing stuff the "little guy" doesn't care about in verbose with other academics. They basically want to convey the message that those "communists" are severely out of touch with the working class. That's what I got from it.
Lucas Peterson
(me) why do our own mods bait us?
Daniel Harris
Shit i needed to turn on the subs made in china to understand what they were saying
Do the coens think that leftist only want to destroy capitalism(and not replace it with something better)
Like the only guy that sounded like the average communist was….that angry guy that drinked a lot of coffee
I am also offended by the luck of commies btfo..
Isaiah Miller
that's pretty much what Marxist academics are. The arrogant fedora tier faith in Marxist social "science" and their view of history as science with the inevitability of capitalism being replaced by communism is also memed here
Josiah Thompson
When has it ever been replaced with something better that lead to an increase of the quality of life and not the opposite?
Face it, it has never happened, and at best that can be promised ia a mixed economy which has not been replicated outside of fully westernized countries.
Wyatt Bell
USSR was seen as a monstrous threat by the capitalist world, how was that achieved if what you say is true? Btw "mixed" capitalist economies are not made by choices of politicians but by the threat socialism posed.
All the benefits that are taken away today were won by the struggle of workers against the tyranny of capitalism.
Bentley Moore
Living standards increased in the USSR, China, Cuba, Albania, DDR, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Romania, Burkina-Faso, Yugoslavia, etc. etc.
Angel Jones
I thought that the movie was ironic and critical of the protagonists over attachment to his corporate overlords and complete isolation from his wife and children.
Justin Morales
Not him but Tsar's Russia had the 4th largest GDP in the world at the time if you just let it alone and let it develop organically it would have lead to living standards increasing anyway. Btw bolsheviks didn't even overthrow the tsar the tsar was already overthrown they overthrew the first democracy Russia ever had.
Christian Cook
GDP doesn't mean shit when most of your population is impoverished. Saying that we should've just "let it alone" and let it "develop" is a fucking stupid claim especially considering the only time the Tsar ever made reforms was when he was basically forced to.
You're kidding right?
Grayson Brooks
Except that's not even true. My experience is that, with some exception like Cockshott, a huge number of "Marxist" academics have had their theory poisoned by idealism and postmodernism.
James Reyes
Tsarist Russia was a semi-feudal, mostly agrarian piece of shit country. 30 years after the revolution the USSR was an industrial superpower, world leader in science, first country in space, etc.
Angel Rogers
at the price of millions of people dead and it collapsing anyway
Alexander Reed
"muh black book of gommunism"
And you're also acting like Capitalism is has never been responsible for deaths.
Yeah and it's collapsed because Gorbachev introduced market reforms and Yeltsin dissolved it even though the majority of Soviet citizens wanted to preserve the USSR.
Ethan Mitchell
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Jaxon Perez
Literally every country which has had a communist revolution has been better off for it
Proofs? Russia under the Tzar was still feudal by and and large and most people were illiterate peasants.
The Duma was incredibly unpopular by the time of the October Revolution, in no small part because the liberal government decided to stay in WWI. Meanwhile, the Bolsheviks had managed to win majorities in almost all the soviets, which served as the precident for them overthrowing the Duma and declaring "All Power to the Soviets!". The Red Army won the ensuing Russian Civil War largely because the Bolshevik government had much greater popular support.
Landon Martin
From the rules:
>post cuckshit, "commies BTFO," or any of that kind of shit
Luke Bell
i'm pretty sure OP was being ironic pls don't purge
Jack Robinson
I didn't ban him, I just anchored the thread. OP is a black flag poster btw.
James Wright
How the fuck can you take what the Coen write seriously? It's supposed to be a parody of everything for fuck sake.
Camden Williams
They wanted to preserve the country within the current borders but not the economic system.
it's an economic system which you don't have a working alternative to you might as well say hurr look at all those people killed by Resource scarcity and the nation state system. The USSR was a capitalist country which just had a bunch of bureaucrats running the industry instead of business owners and corporations.
theglobalist.com
en.wikipedia.org
Jaxon Russell
not really I'm more of a depressed nihilist poster
Grayson Russell
The majority of your post history is under the black flag, is what I meant.
William Smith
Those are just the ones you see from the current IP I have
Oliver Hill
This is called “lying with statistics”, children.
Daniel Murphy
GDP (PPP) is a bit of a meme even under capitalism. How big your GDP (PPP) is doesn't mean shit when you need to participate in the global market; the only thing that matters is nominal GDP/purchasing power.