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short reviews of films I've seen recently:

"Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse" decent, would recommend if you're looking to kill some time
"Coco" same
"Remains of the Day" good, though the ending was kind of disappointing
"Room with a View" good
"Edge of Democracy" very good
"Dark Phoenix" was atrocious, I could barely get through it, but "Bodied" might be the worst film I've attempted to watch in years. I couldn't even finish it and had to stop it halfway through, which I very rarely do. It is like a very shitty, amateurish early 2000s youtube movie
of course all those alt-right grifters whining about rotten tomatoes scores always pick the wrong targets. There is no universe in which this shitty film in every respect, from the writing to the acting to the cinematography, should have this score. Again, it's unfuckingwatchable
"Edge of Democracy" has a speech by Lula in it, one he gave when he was in the union building before he was arrested, which is the best I've ever heard. I wanted to post it but I couldn't figure out how to add the English translation. A must-watch film!

holy shit these reviews of bodied are making me want to do a 4 hour youtube rant
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reading benjamin's brilliant "on the concept of history" and struck by some of the parallels with our own time. the piece, written in 1940 as the nazis were sweeping across europe, is a meditation on the failures of german social democrats, the alt-centrists of that period
the reference to the spartacus league is noteworthy: that was when the SPD government ordered the freikorps, which would develop into nazi brownshirts, to arrest and execute luxemburg and liebknecht, two of the most prominent socialist leaders of the time theguardian.com/books/2019/jan…
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in 2016 he was "too rural", now he's "too urban": it's almost like they'll just pick up and throw whatever shit they can find at him hoping that it'll stick

oh and for those who don't know, "rural" and "urban" are code for "white" and "black and brown"
also remember when hillary clinton was running against obama in 2008 and saying he couldn't "connect with rural folks", and then in 2016 she pulled a 180 and ran the "bernie is too rural" campaign? that was fun!
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if you deny the existence of the ruling ideology, you can more easily present it as but an expression of the natural order, of how things always were and have to be. That's the aim of alt-centrists like Klein: to feign objectivity while advancing a destructive political project
and he's exactly wrong. Philip Mirowski, a leading scholar on neoliberalism and its history, has observed that its feigned market fetishism is but a thin disguise for a state fetishism, though it conceives of the state as having to serve the interests of the ruling classes
highly recommend reading the full piece by Mirowski: "Neoliberalism: The Movement That Dare Not Speak Its Name" (see americanaffairsjournal.org/2018/02/neolib…). The market/state dichotomy conjured up in neoliberal rhetoric is a false one, used to sneak in the aforementioned state fetishism
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