Fairly niche? Most of the lemmygrad people are outright idolizing every totalitarian 'marxist' regime of the past century.

I totally get left ideology and do agree with Marx' ideology, but I've never understood how simping for autocrats fits into that.

When I read that Lemmy had an active communist group I was looking forward to that, but the vehemence of the debate and the apologetic whitewashing of history really turned me off.

So yeah, please a debate that isn't so black and white is very welcome imho.

Inglorious Bastards ain’t your average war flick or history lesson, it’s Tarantino doing his offbeat thing

I can understand that, I like his style ususally. But that's point of my disappointment. As a historian I cannot see it apart from the historical events. But the crowd reaction is what really freaked me out, it's scary if you think of it.

But remember, Tarantino’s all about pushing buttons and sparking chatter. If it got under your skin, maybe it hit the mark.

It may have. I think the true brilliance of the movie is how the audience, due to framing, can be induced to condone the killing of innocents. I sincerely hope that wasn't actually Tarantino's intention.

For instance the soldier killed by the bear jew refused to give up military secrets under threat of death. He chooses te respectfully refuse and is then killed. Framed differently in lots of war movies this is a heroic act.

But here people then cheer when te bear jew comes out and finishes him off.

All of this is an actual war crime.

That’s just folks enjoying seeing the Nazis get some comeuppance.

Indeed and I know, it's all a bit of good fun. I just can separate it from the very real and very deadly seriousness of this part of history. That was what the main question of this thread was about.

I had another experience. The power of the first John wick movie was the very simple story of a man loosing his dog and his car, to an orgasmic vengeance bullet bukkake.

Four is the other way around. The story is so complicated and, too be honest, weak, that all the fantastic fight choreography in the world can't offset it. It gets boring as you're not even remotely emotionally engaged.

I will treat the wick saga like I did with the matrix. There is only one, shame they didn't shoot a sequel.

That last sentence made me crack up

Doesn't north Korea's dynastic autocratic rule appear slightly monarchistic to you? Autocratic would be a better word than monarchistic in general.

But there isn't a single 'communist' state where the prolitariat do the ruling

Not really successes at all if you've read your Marx.

All of them followed in Stalins 'leninistic' (how ironic) approach. With a single ruler that reeks of old fashioned monarchism rather then the rule of the prolitariat. Some of them even renouncing communism and embracing blatant capitalism (some only embracing capitalism but staying communist in name only).

The only thing they do for pure marxism is accelerating the revolution to come, but actualy condoning repression in other places just for that sake is quite fin de siecle type of marxist thought.

Starship troopers