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I’ve noticed a trend in some new American media coming out of more openly positive depictions of socialism/communism. The new HBO The Last Of Us series for example has this scene, and the new Fallout series has a more centrist/neoliberal take but at least calls out how the right uses communist as a “dirty word,” though she qualifies the statement by first saying “I’m not a communist.”

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Munrock@lemmygrad.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

The new HBO The Last Of Us series for example has this scene,

I love that scene. It’s so authentic: hearing a white American describe his successful living arrangement as literal communism but saying it’s not communism, and a black American correcting him. 100 years of Red Scare and minority struggle captured in a few lines of dialogue.

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- jimhensonslostpuppet@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  I don’t like the implication that full communism is only possible after a zombie apocalypse though lol
  
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  - Urist@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    More like the dissolvement of US hegemony.
    
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    jimhensonslostpuppet@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    I don’t think that’s what they were going with.
    
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jimhensonslostpuppet@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Yeah, I find it odd because its Hollywood doing these references which isn’t exactly a left wing institution.

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