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Thread ID: 18853 | Posts: 1 | Started: 2005-06-27
2005-06-27 01:16 | User Profile
In case you need a laugh:
[url]http://www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/bookstore/index.html#M[/url]
[url]http://www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/movies/index.html[/url] [QUOTE]In conclusion, the Powerpuff Girls are a reactionary, pseudo-feminist enterprise. [/QUOTE] [QUOTE] Some of the songs on this album are near the top of the list "To Be Censored Under the Dictatorship of the Proletariat." Other songs reflect the anti-war movement and generally radical politics of the times. On the whole, as even Jagger himself admits, the Rolling Stones put forward horrific sexism. Undoing the damage and putting out equally popular music without the sexism is a challenge to the revolution.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE] Toby Keith as an Agent of Patriarchy and Imperialism
The new album of Toby Keith "Shock'n y'all" is not really shocking but rather an absolutely predictable and unabashed apology for Amerikkan imperialism by a representative of the rural white labor aristocracy. As much as we are trying to avoid stereotyping, Toby Keith simply makes it impossible not to make a mental connection between what is being said and who is the speaker.
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They DO consider Conan the Barbarian progressive though
[QUOTE]Conan gets no help from the hapless members of a religious suicide cult reminiscent of Hari Krishna (in costumes and atmosphere of the members), the Aum Shinrikyo and life in general under capitalism. True to Nietzsche and idealist views of history, it was just one hero freeing the sheep. "Conan" movies thereby raise the question that we often face whether it is a Lenin or a Che (whose line we have serious disagreements with) that always ends up carrying the disproportionate weight of struggle or whether there really are classes behind the various important struggles of the day.
In the case of "Conan: The Barbarian," Conan is explosive material because he came from an oppressed village that ended up in slavery. There is definitely something dialectical about how someone forced down to the bottom rose up and upended convention.[/QUOTE]