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Someone today talked about "artful ambiguity" in reference to Marxism (for the Logistics movie). If capital-exploits-workers is what you believe in, then you wi
by UIUC_06 4y ago
Someone today talked about "artful ambiguity" in reference to Marxism (for the Logistics movie). If capital-exploits-workers is what you believe in, then you will see it everywhere. But it's thin and unsatisfying gruel. Life is more than politics.
I deliberately pick a left-wing magazine, The Atlantic [1], for this. If anyone would apply a socialist rubric to Severance, it's them. Yet the words "capital", "Marx" and "socialist" don't even appear in it.
[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2022/02/severance-makes-workplace-eerily-dystopian/622883/ https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2022/02/severanc...
- texaslonghorn5 4y agoThe Atlantic isn't a "left-wing magazine." Liberal / centrist / socially liberal yes, maybe they often have progressive writers author pieces. But they also platform conservative or center-right voices and that would be highly atypical/irregular for any left-wing magazine. In fact, there's a lot of ideas to the left of The Atlantic, and I'm sure many people who support these ideas would dismiss The Atlantic as being far too liberal/neoliberal.
- Apocryphon 4y agoTake, for instance, The Baffler: https://thebaffler.com/salvos/omniscient-gentlemen-of-the-atlantic https://thebaffler.com/salvos/omniscient-gentlemen-of-the-at...
- UIUC_06 4y ago