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  • Dual poweris situational and can contend with decaying capitalism, not necessarily a practice (red library)

  • Lenin feared a workerist identitybecause if a worker could identify with their working conditions only they didn't necessarily need to be anti capitalist. Therefore he stressed proletarian identity

  • WWII was the end of the /ancien regime, with the aristocracy being integrated into the bourgeois class

  • Lawsare written to constrain others, not the ruling class

  • Political kitsch is a means of talking about politics in a very neoliberal way: everyone is their own entrepreneur and the purchasing of these products is seen as an expression of identity

  • Nazicinemawas fascinated by death, much like Nazism itself. Deaths in Nazi cinema were happy and self-sacrificing (see also: Nazi cinema

  • Nazicinemacreated a false fantasy, traditional life (see also: Nazi cinema

  • Age regression was common in Nazi films innocence and child-like behavior

  • Nazi moviesoutright copied Hollywood in terms of popular genre film

  • As the Nazi final solution rolled out, Nazi cinemabecame more openly antisemitic

Revolution is unlikely to happen where the majority of people are comfortable

  • Capitalism has thus far managed to eliminate the hungry mob, therefore making revolution difficult

  • Revolution is more likely in autocratic countries (pop the left)

  • Most socialist revolutions weren't even majority proletarian, they always made compromises and worked with other groups

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