A college town, communist style

[MarxSchmarx]

I imagine this has been posted on revleft before:

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"Espionage as a science, propaganda as an art, sabotage as a business, this American city, deep in the heart of the Soviet Union..."

So OIers, is this what you really think we are up to? This actually looks a lot like some checkpoints my colleagues drive through that check their drivers licenses.

[TheAltruist]

I can't explain this, and I don't know why, but for some some odd reason, I actually liked what I saw from it... I mean, they used actual words from the left; bourgeoisie, proletariat, and reactionary. Maybe it's on DVD...

[Sea]

I can't explain this, and I don't know why, but for some some odd reason, I actually liked what I saw from it... I mean, they used actual words from the left; bourgeoisie, proletariat, and reactionary. Maybe it's on DVD...

Really? The context makes me sick. Right from the beginning:


"Americans! They have too many freedoms!"
"That is another thing you must remember, Comrade. Someday it will be your mission to destroy those bourgie capitalist freedoms."

Throughout the video they portray communism as necessitating the removal of personal liberty. As enslavement, totalitarianism and the notion that human beings have no other purpose than to serve their government (Sound familiar?).

What educational value does a video meant to teach about communism have if it does not portray communism?

[Comrade Samuel]

Can you post it in link form?

Thanks in advance.

[RedZezz]

It is very interesting looking back at films like this. For those who do not know, this was a film by the US government to show the army as a propaganda film. It is pretty funny when you watch this film and then immediatly watch another propaganda film for the troops made less than two decade before about the same "evil" country.

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[Raúl Duke]

"Americans, they have too many freedoms!"

:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

[l'Enfermé]

So OIers, is this what you really think we are up to?
Most people that post in the OI, including the restricted people, consider themselves to be either Communists, Socialists, or Anarchists or subscribe to any other form of "Far-Left" politics, so I'm not sure who it is you're addressing.

Anyways, I love old-time American propaganda videos. Not as convincing as Soviet propaganda though...

[Black_Rose]

Thanks... I guess it shows what most Americans think life in a M-L regime actually is.

I thought M-L countries are usually dreary, yet safe places, where there are relatively fewer opportunities to express individualism (in the economic sense through consumerism), but tranquil and secure since no one experiences economic despair and turmoil. One could simply live out his/her life in peace and dignity there.

Fuck freedom.

[Sea]

Thanks... I guess it shows what most Americans think life in a M-L regime actually is.

I thought M-L countries are usually dreary, yet safe places, where there are relatively fewer opportunities to express individualism (in the economic sense through consumerism), but tranquil and secure since no one experiences economic despair and turmoil. One could simply live out his/her life in peace and dignity there.

Fuck freedom.
You just had to add that last bit, didn't you.. :cursing:

[Black_Rose]

You just had to add that last bit, didn't you.. :cursing:

Freedom in the context of bourgeois liberties.

[Krano]

You just had to add that last bit, didn't you.. :cursing:
Atleast he admits it unlike other Stalinists.

[o well this is ok I guess]

Maaaaan I'd major in bomb-making any day. This school sounds like paradise.

[MarxSchmarx]

Can you post it in link form?

Thanks in advance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuvHBgHyHh0

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

Freedom in the context of bourgeois liberties.

Are these "liberties" bad because they are supposedly bourgeois, or because they get bent/broken at the whim of the ruling classes and/or are applied unevenly and with prejudice?