Friday Nite Videos | April 20, 2018
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Actor, teacher and activist Brian Jones plays Karl Marx in the late Howard Zinn's amusing one person play that looks at Marx's life, his analysis of society and his passion for radical change.
Raoul Peck’s The Young Karl Marx is the best buddy movie since George Roy Hill’s Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in 1969. It’s also among the most important films in decades, bringing to a mass audience not just the revolutionary ideas of Marx and his friend and collaborator Frederick Engels in the early days of modern capitalism, but an approach to politics and history that still has no peer.
The narrative brilliance of director Raoul Peck (I Am Not Your Negro) tells the story of Karl Marx's marriage, soaring vision, political exile and partnership with Frederick Engels. Check local listings for showtimes.
Saying Marxism is a science is preface. Add organized sarcasm and we come closer to mocking not so much intimate feelings associated with worldly illusions but their form in a particular perishable world. It aims to give new form to certain aspirations, the better to regenerate them. Yet if Marxist movements are to be effective, they must create new tastes and a new language for struggles to be born. Sarcasm then is about what outrages our sense of what should be.
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