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Given how every second piece of mainstream entertainment is about sticking it to the man, i find that reasoning a little uncompelling.
by bawolff 2y ago
Given how every second piece of mainstream entertainment is about sticking it to the man, i find that reasoning a little uncompelling.
- potato3732842 2y agoYou can't make a hollywood movie or expensive TV series or other top tier content about something that can't be repackaged and resold to foreign audiences.
- archagon 2y agoChina would love an American movie about the working class rising up against the bourgeoisie. (I think that’s the real reason these movies don’t get made: they’re too “Communist” for American audiences.)
- Anthony-G 2y agoSuch films might be too “communist” for Americans but they would definitely be too “communist” for the current Chinese Communist Party. They might call themselves communists or socialists but the last thing they want is for Chinese workers to get ideas about organising autonomously and collectively. The last time this happened in 1989, they were ruthlessly crushed by the dominant, conservative wing of the CCP. https://jacobin.com/2019/06/tiananmen-square-worker-organization-socialist-democracy https://jacobin.com/2019/06/tiananmen-square-worker-organiza...
- mensetmanusman 2y agoYeah they jail communists now. They went full totalitarian.
- arrowsmith 2y agoCommunist regimes jail communists too.