Marxist analyst of Powerpuff Girls

[Psy]

There is a number of feminist annalists of the show Powerpuff Girls yet with yet to find a Marxist annalist so I going give a bit of one.

In the episode Knock It Off a capitalist mass produces cheap knockoffs Powerpuff girls (commoditizing living beings) yet this is pretty much the extent on knocking capitalists for example in Monstra-City when the Mayor expropriation monster island displacing the monsters that lived there instead of the Powerpuff girls beating up the bad guy in this cause (the Mayor) the Powerpuff girls respects the established order and simply gets a monster lawyer. This happens again in Girls Gone Mild and Town and Out where the girls follow restrictions on using their powers even though the state has no means to enforce these restrictions.

More importantly is even though in the movie the Powerpuff Girls labor to build Mojo Jojo's lab thinking it was going to be used to help the citizens the Powerpuff Girls never attempted to use their super powers again to improve society mostly they simply maintain the status quo, in the 2009 special "The Powerpuff Girls Rule!!" Mojo Jojo does create a utopia where at least electricity is free for life but at the end he becomes evil simply to restore the status quo.

That is all I can think of right now, feel free to add your views of the Powerpuff Girls from a Marxist perspective.

[Pogue]

Is this serious?

[Psy]

Is this serious?
There has been serious feminist annalist of the Powerpuff Girls, some even published so why not look at the show from a Marxist point of view?

[makesi]

There has been serious feminist annalist of the Powerpuff Girls, some even published so why not look at the show from a Marxist point of view?


Never seen the show, only commercials for it, but I'm not opposed to Marxist analyses being made of anything.

Boris Kagarlitsky has made a leftwing (don't know if I would call it Marxist) analysis of Pokemon.

[Trystan]

The idea of the transformation of the pokemon into 'higher' pokemon is reminiscent of Nietzsche's ideas of man's transformation into an ubermensch. Pokemon was most certainly a vitally important commentary on our post-modern condition.






Maybe I should write for the Guardian or something.

[Psy]

Never seen the show, only commercials for it, but I'm not opposed to Marxist analyses being made of anything.

Overall the Powerpuff Girls are a tool of the local state authority (Townsville) through defending it and the propertied interests within it (that is a trend found in many superheroes in pop culture). Instead of using their superpowers to make Townsville better they use their powers to defend the status quo (again a trend found in many superheroes in pop culture).

Every time the Powerpuff Girls do use their power to improve Townsville its fails, first through Mojo Jojo tricking them into building a machine to help Mojo Jojo take over Townsville and establish himself as dictator, next they gave their powers to a Gnome in exchange for the Gnome to rid evil from Townsville that resulted in the citizens sacrifing their freedom for this utopia without any evil.

Of course then there is the absence of legitimate crime within the universe of Powerpuff Girls, even the Gangreen Gang are simply hoodlums with no class within the Powerpuff Girls universe that commit crime because they are jerks.

[Sam_b]

This isn't a Marxist analysis, you've just taken the storyline and added in fairly simplistic ideas about general organisation under a capitalist system.

[Psy]

This isn't a Marxist analysis, you've just taken the storyline and added in fairly simplistic ideas about general organisation under a capitalist system.
We are dealing with a simple fictional universe, where the Powerpuff Girls answers to the local authority even though the state has no means to enforce its will on them, even after Mojo Jojo destroyed the state that shunned the Powerpuff Girls and arrested their farther the Powerpuff Girls at the end still became subservent when it was restablished after Mojo Jojo was defeated.

[Kukulofori]

Weren't there cops in the Citysburg episode that like outlawed them flying and fighting crime? Then there was one where they made crime legal.

[Psy]

Weren't there cops in the Citysburg episode that like outlawed them flying and fighting crime?

Right because they destroyed the bridge from the city into the suburbs, of course the Powerpuff Girls could have easily repaired it, in the movie they built Mojo Jojo's lab very quickly using their superpower for construction (of course doing so would have endangered the capitalist mode of production).



Then there was one where they made crime legal.
That was Princess Morbucks who had her capitalist farther buy the whole city of Townville for her. This is an example where the Powerpuff Girls are tools of the state, just because the law said it was lawful of a capitalist to buy the whole city and give it as gift to his spoiled daughter they upheld the law and won by bending it rather then operating outside the authority of the state.

[Jethro Tull]

Boris Kagarlitsky has made a leftwing (don't know if I would call it Marxist) analysis of Pokemon.

kargalitsky's analysis is definitely not marxist.


In terms of artistic quality, Soviet cartoons are indeed considerably better [...] Alas, however, it is this mass production that guarantees Pokemon's victory. Cheburashka stars in only four films, while Pokemon is attacking along the broadest possible front. Every day new episodes appear on ours creens, while the stores are full of related toys and clothing and goodness knows what else. [...] In this instance, the experience of Finland may be instructive. Instead of whining about the onslaught of American/Japanese popular culture, it fought back with its own weapons. They created a mass-culture version of the popular Moomintroll series by the talented Finnish writer Tove Jansson. Now Moomintroll has become an entire industry: books, toys, comics, clothes, etc.i guess the factory workers churning out cheburashka and moomintroll dolls and clothing are happier than the factory workers churning out pokemon dolls and clothing, because by toiling away producing eco-cidal mass-commodity garbage, they're striking a blow to yankee cultural imperialism. :rolleyes:

re: the original topic - someone should just get it over with and make a communist p.p.g. fan-comic