Yeah, I find it odd because its Hollywood doing these references which isn’t exactly a left wing institution.
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Schmoo@slrpnk.net 5 months ago
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.”
jimhensonslostpuppet@startrek.website 5 months ago
Munrock@lemmygrad.ml 5 months ago
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.
jimhensonslostpuppet@startrek.website 5 months ago
I don’t like the implication that full communism is only possible after a zombie apocalypse though lol
Urist@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
More like the dissolvement of US hegemony.
jimhensonslostpuppet@startrek.website 5 months ago
I don’t think that’s what they were going with.