Hello Sisters and Brothers, I'm looking for some recommendations for TV shows to watch that have a communist tilt to them, or are straight up communist.
It has been such a pain in the ass trying to watch a show that isn't either subtly Zionist or just straight up pro-US imperialism. Watching Scrubs and the Afghanistan war episode comes up. Watching Modern Family and there's constant references to Bar Mitzvahs (with Israeli flags). Watching fucking Hannah Montana and there's a Afghan war episode. Like I know that's ridiculous to mention but I'm trying to say the rot runs deep in essentially every piece of media we watch
I have included The Good Place as good example because although it's not explicitly communist, it is a show all about how Capitalism has made the world hell and only revolution can solve the problem but it still kinda distances itself from that by saying "revolution in the afterlife only". Still the best we've got
Does anyone have any recommendations for stuff to watch?
Television is inherently bourgeois, read books
Read *When the Steel Was Tempered*
>>47390>>47391Thank you for the rec, I'll read that. But I'm just looking for something to throw on in the background while I do my work that won't make me angry if I tune in to what's happening
>>47392Do that with music instead of actual poison
In Star Trek the federation is kinda communist I guess? Not commie but The Expanse features the space third world fighting for liberation against the imperialists of Earth and Mars.
>>47394>The Expanse features the space third world fighting for liberation against the imperialists of Earth and Mars.and in typical lib media fashion, they're led by a narcissist psycho looser
I'm still mad at it
>>47389archer often talk about the various heinous shit CIA did and is hilarious
boots riley stuff, the serie with a giant kid is ok and has pro revolutionary bend
in books somewhat recently I read altered carbon which is cyberpunk very critical of capitalism, and although overall highly cynical about revolution, the third book does feature some serious hope on that front, and it has a historical che gueveara/marx blend figure in quellchrist falconer that is pretty based
Look up Means TV
>>47395>and in typical lib media fashion, they're led by a narcissist psycho looserThey're led by various factions loosely federated, the guy you're talking about is an opportunist buffoon who only got far because
the martian fascists gave him ships and tech so he would wreck earth and the solar economy to buy them time. In the real world you have third world orgs like ISIS and so on who are funded by imperialist factions to do this kind of divide and conquer shit so it's not a super liberal take.
>>47398if I recall correctly after his big operation success most fall in line behind him and he become effectively the leader and face of the resistance until he fucks up enough, and I'm not sure if the martian fascists plot line is even present in the tv show, but true, the books are good enough its not so simple. Theres still an anti radical angle, as he is the main representative of the armed resistance factions and his terrorists attacks are the most destructive thing that happens in the story.
Breaking bad
It shows how ego driven men and private healthcare can ruin entire families
>>47389Watch Frieren, it's Maoist
The Boondocks
>>47389>Communist or Commie Adjacent ShowsI would search for something produced in Eastern Europe as Hollywood mystifies this topic too much. Plenty of TV-shows about life in DDR.
>>47405>>47404>>47406>>47407>>47408>>47409>>47410>>47411bro you cant just spam a bunch of embed youtube link with 0 description and expect people to take a look
Severance is the most class-conscious show of the decade. It's all about alienation and atomization of the workplace.
>>47389>milquetoast feelgood liberal reform is "communist adjacent"you can like shows that arent explicitly communist or we'd all be only watching situationist and early soviet films forever bruh performative leftoids are so fucking retarded
>>47413as ""class conscious"" (thats not even what the word means, idiot) as a tv show about suffering facebook employees lmao
The Suite Life of Zack and Cody. There's an intelligent proletarian candy counter worker, a clueless bourgeois heiress and twins (one of them is obedient and the other is rebellious).
>>47399>>47394The OPA is explicitly (positively) compared to Hamas and Hezbollah in the books, which was almost certainly glossed over in the TV series (haven't watched them but i have read the books).
the americans
Severance is a show where the worker is so fully atomized that they have an entirely different personality from their non-work selves. This personality only has memories from when they began work and experiences nights and weekends as an eyeblink. Very class conscious, it's only on AppleTV so I recommend watching it from a sketchy .ru site or something like that
>>47427Why did the bourgeoisie make this film?
>>47415I don't understand how a show about suffering facebook employees couldn't be class conscious, if they are at odds with their employer what difference does it make where they work?
Is your criticism about the protagonists being white collar?
>>47389Pseuds to understand that every show is made by liberals and promotes liberal ideas. There are no communist shows. A show saying "rich people stinky" is not communism, not even marxism. Culture is irrelevant to the class struggle and ideas don't precede praxis.
Also before you ask, yes, you can still like them. Marx loved art and auteurs like Shakespeare, for example.
>>47576"Of all the arts, the most important for us is cinema" - Lenin
retarded. Marxists have always been interested in the cultural sphere - especially extremely expensive undertakings like film - because they are such useful tools for not only describing capitalist society but transforming it as well.
There are far too many explicitly Marxist directors and writers to list here.
In terms of drama series TV, recently ᴉuᴉlossnW Son of the Century is pretty damn close to an explicitly communist show.
Also while more a public education show, Ways of Seeing was written and narrated by a Marxist:
https://youtu.be/P-4LwAuTw7k >>47576huh, turns out 'Come and See' is just radlib shit who knew.
>>47578I'm also going to recommend Columbo here, it's not really commie adjacent but its political leanings are fine if not somewhat admirable. And while I haven't watched it myself I know so many leftists who like Deep Space Nine.
Gundam 0079 is also an interesting one too. It's written by a centrist and more both sides are bad type show, but there's a lot of historical juxtaposition to anti-colonialism, independence movements and the threat of fascism arising from failed revolutionary movements. Its another most leftists love this shit show.
>>47580Oh almost forgot the Soviet drama series of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson is very good.
>>47578>best "argument" is a one-sentence quote (lol) by Lenin literally just saying he likes art (…? I literally brought up Marx saying he liked art too in the same post so you're also an illiterate faggot) and that "well, academics who call themselves "marxists" talk endlessly about culture ergo culture is relevant to communism, duh!"<has the gall to call others retardedGenuine fucking cattle. Protip: the "culture war" insult exists precisely because focusing on culture is PB nonsense, which is exactly what the politically impotent do.
>>47582Yea dude youre a real fucking moron and your take is fundamentally undialectical.
And here is a list of Marxist (or at least adjacent) directors:
Eisenstein, Passolini, Godard, Pontecorvo, Sembene, Loach, Rocha, Tomas Alea, Santiago Alvarez, Boots Riley
Literally off the top of my head.
pretty cool that it seemed a while ago people were more cynical about mass media pandering to them with their beliefs and identities and now it seems people demand to be pandered to xd
>>47584you still haven't explained why there cant be communist art - the thing the Bolskeviks and every revolutionary communist party was obsessed with building. Or more broadly why culture is somehow beneath the interests of Marxists.
Your incessant whining is ironically the same culture war bs you have an issue with.
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