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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
- 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