#+title: 20201219 * Unfiled - [[file:../20201219144156-dual_power.org][Dual power]] is situational and can contend with decaying capitalism, not necessarily a practice (red library) - Lenin feared a [[file:../20201219145837-workerism.org][workerist identity]] because 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 /[[file:../20201219145415-ancien_regime.org][ancien regime]]/, with the aristocracy being integrated into the bourgeois class - [[file:../20201219145900-law.org][Laws]] are written to constrain others, not the ruling class - Political kitsch is a means of talking about politics in a very [[file:../20200607211237-neoliberalism.org][neoliberal]] way: everyone is their own entrepreneur and the purchasing of these products is seen as an expression of [[file:../20201219150337-identity.org][identity]] - [[file:../20200713212425-nazis.org][Nazi]] [[file:../20201219150348-cinema.org][cinema]] was fascinated by death, much like Nazism itself. Deaths in Nazi cinema were happy and self-sacrificing (see also: [[file:../20201219150451-nazi_cinema.org][Nazi cinema]]) - [[file:../20200713212425-nazis.org][Nazi]] [[file:../20201219150348-cinema.org][cinema]] created a false fantasy, traditional life (see also: [[file:../20201219150451-nazi_cinema.org][Nazi cinema]]) - Age regression was common in [[file:../20201219150451-nazi_cinema.org][Nazi films]], innocence and child-like behavior - [[file:../20201219150451-nazi_cinema.org][Nazi movies]] outright copied Hollywood in terms of popular genre film - As the Nazi final solution rolled out, [[file:../20201219150451-nazi_cinema.org][Nazi cinema]] became more openly antisemitic * [[file:../20201219144544-revolution_is_unlikely_to_happen_where_the_majority_of_people_are_comfortable.org][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