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Hexen
28th January 2010, 06:03
Lets say in a post-revolutionary society, what will happen to films/novels/games/other fiction that are a product of capitalist society? Will they get put into a history museum? Or they will have their storylines changed to suit socialist societies ideals? For example, Lets say that films/characters/etc like Batman, The Matrix, Star Wars, Star Trek, Dr. Who and such are remade in a post-revolutionary society I wonder how they would be changed? For example, I would most likely see that Batman would be portrayed as a oppressor rather than a hero or something like that. Does anyone have ideas?
Axle
28th January 2010, 06:58
Neither. They'd just become part of the public domain.
There's no reason to ban or censor fiction. The stories about King Arther and things similar to it are still widely read and mostly unchanged although we're no longer in a feudal society.
Of course, that isn't to say that the mythology of a continuing character like Batman wouldn't evole and change to suit social norms under socialism, though.
Psy
28th January 2010, 14:46
They would be uploaded to something like Archive.org (http://www.archive.org/index.php), there probably also be new works based on pre-revolutionary fiction.
RedAnarchist
28th January 2010, 15:16
Just because the books we read now were made under capitalism (or, if you're reading Chaucer or Shakespeare, feudalism) doesn't mean that we will burn them in a post-revolutionary society. Alongside them in our libraries will be new works of literature, art, films etc that will be made in the post-revolutionary society.
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