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• [[Dual power]] is situational and can contend with decaying capitalism, not necessarily a practice (red library)
• Lenin feared a [[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 [[ancien regime]], with the aristocracy being integrated into the bourgeois class
• [[Laws]] are 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]]
• [[Nazi]] [[cinema]] was fascinated by death, much like Nazism itself. Deaths in Nazi cinema were happy and self-sacrificing (see also: [[Nazi cinema]])
• [[Nazi]] [[cinema]] created a false fantasy, traditional life (see also: [[Nazi cinema]])
• Age regression was common in [[Nazi films]], innocence and child-like behavior
• [[Nazi movies]] outright copied Hollywood in terms of popular genre film
• As the Nazi final solution rolled out, [[Nazi cinema]] became 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