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Marx Reloaded is a cultural documentary that examines the relevance of German socialist and philosopher Karl Marx's ideas for understanding the global economic and financial crisis of 2008-09. The crisis triggered the deepest global recession in 70 years and prompted the US government to spend more than 1 trillion dollars in order to rescue its banking system from collapse. Today the full implications of the crisis in Europe and around the world still remain unclear. Nevertheless, should we accept the crisis as an unfortunate side-effect of the free market? Or is there another explanation as to why it happened and its likely effects on our society, our economy and our whole way of life? Written and directed by Jason Barker - himself an experienced writer, lecturer, translator and doctor of philosophy - Marx Reloaded comprises interviews with the world's leading philosophers of Marxism, including those at the forefront of a popular revival in Marxist and communist ideas. The film also includes interviews with skeptics of this revival as well as light-hearted animation sequences which follow Marx's adventures through the matrix of his own ideas.
Keywords: 2d-animation, communism, marxism, philosophy
Which pill will you take?
Slavoj Zizek: A communist society would be a society where everyone would be allowed to dwell in his or her own stupidity. You know who gave me this idea? Even Fred Jameson who said what if you imagine communism not as a perfectly normal society but, like a crazy society that you find on some Bruegel painting/proverbs, you know. A madman here that is a man thinks that is a man who thinks he is a chicken, there is a man who thinks he is Napoleon, you know. All these madmen politely existing wouldn't it be nice?
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Jack, a struggling corporate executive, makes his way in the world of global domination. Emma, a destitute waif with a heart of gold, plays songs for pennies in the cold, dark night. Darryl, a down-on-his-luck Negro with nary a dime to his name, shuffles through another day, survivin' on the mean streets. Together, can they solve all the problems of society and civilization? This epic musical comedy live-action cartoon satire dares to ask the tough questions... are these the tough questions?
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It is the year 3032AD and the United Earth Systems have been alerted to illegal worm-hole activities occurring on the Asteroid mining colony, Palermus IV. Chief Inspector Winnifred Whackerman and Lt. Julius Johnson are dispatched to investigate Commissar Lev Brownsteen who rules Palermus IV as a Communist dictatorship. As the investigation begins, Julius Johnson meets and becomes smitten with Natasha Pentupp, daughter of the wealthy Heiress and Matriarch of Palermus IV, Margaret Pentupp. Meanwhile, the Commissar prepares the colony for a guest speaker that he has acquired from the past.
Keywords: asteroid, karl-marx
There's something going on this asteroid!
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A collection of skits that made the Python troup famous, performed live at the Hollywood Bowl. Included are the singing philosophers, lumberjacks, the pope, and a suspiciously-male looking seabird vendor.
Keywords: absurd-humor, absurdism, actor-playing-multiple-roles, actress-playing-multiple-roles, albatross, audience-interaction, australian-stereotype, based-on-sketch-comedy, based-on-tv-series, blow-job
Never before in the history of human civilization has there been a movie called "Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl"
Announcer: Hello and welcome to the Ronald Reagan Memorial Bowl, here in the pretty L.A. suburb of Hollywood. Well, we're about to witness All-in Wrestling, brought to you tonight, ladies and gentlemen, by the makers of Scum, the world's first combined hair oil, foot ointment, and salad dressing; and by the makers of Titan, the novelty nuclear missile. You never know when it'll go off.
First Bruce: They're a typical Hollywood audience. All the kids are on drugs and all the adults are on roller skates.
Albatross Woman: Albatross... Albatross. ALBATROSS. [looks to someone in the crowd] You're not supposed to be smoking that. Albatross.::Someone in the crowd: What flavour is it? What flavour is it?::Albatross Woman: Seagull sickle... Pelican bon-bon... ALBATROSS.::Wife: I will have two ice creams, please.::Albatross Woman: I don't have any ice creams, I've just got this albatross. ALBATROSS.::Wife: What flavour is it?::Albatross Woman: ...Well it's an albatross. Isn't it? It's not any bloody flavour. ALBATROSS.::Wife: It's got to be some flavour, I mean everything's got a flavour.::Albatross Woman: All right. All right. It's bloody... albatross flavour... Bleedin' seabird bleedin' flavour. ALBATROSS.::Wife: You get wafers with it?::Albatross Woman: Of course you don't getting fucking wafers with it, you cunt. It's a fucking albatross isn't it.
Michelangelo: Good evening, Your Holiness.::The Pope: Evening, Michelangelo. I want to talk to you about this painting of yours, The Last Supper. I'm not happy about it.::Michelangelo: Oh, dear. It took me hours.::The Pope: Not happy at all.::Michelangelo: Is it the jello you don't like?::The Pope: No.::Michelangelo: It does add a bit of colour, doesn't it. Oh, I know, you don't like the kangaroo.::The Pope: What kangaroo?::Michelangelo: No problem, I'll paint him out.::The Pope: I never saw a kangaroo.::Michelangelo: Uh, he's right at the back. No sweat, I'll make him into a disciple. All right?::The Pope: That's the problem.::Michelangelo: What is?::The Pope: The disciples.::Michelangelo: Are they too Jewish? I made Judas the most Jewish.::The Pope: No, it's just that there are 28 of them.
First Bruce: We find your American beer like making love in a canoe. It's fucking close to water.
Husband: It's the Bishop of Leicester.::Wife: How do you know?::Husband: Tattooed on the back of his neck. I think I'd better call the police.::Wife: Shouldn't you call the church?::Son: Call the Church Police.::Husband: Good idea.
Customer: I'd like to have an argument please.
Flying minstrel: I've got two legs, from my hips to the ground / And when I move them, they walk around / And when I lift them, they climb the stairs / And when I shave them, they ain't got hairs.
Barrister 1: I did my whole, "Serious offense" bit and then I waggled me wig!::Husband: You did what?::Barrister 1: I waggled me wig!
Yorkshireman 1: Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, eat a lump of cold poison, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad would kill us, and dance about on our graves.::Yorkshireman 2: But you try and tell the young people today that... and they won't believe ya'.
Karl Heinrich Marx (5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. His ideas played a significant role in the development of social science and the socialist political movement. He published various books during his lifetime, with the most notable being The Communist Manifesto (1848) and Capital (1867–1894); some of his works were co-written with his friend and fellow German revolutionary socialist, Friedrich Engels.
Born into a wealthy middle class family in Trier, formerly in Prussian Rhineland now called Rhineland-Palatinate, Marx studied at both the University of Bonn and the University of Berlin, where he became interested in the philosophical ideas of the Young Hegelians. In 1836, he became engaged to Jenny von Westphalen, marrying her in 1843. After his studies, he wrote for a radical newspaper in Cologne, and began to work out his theory of dialectical materialism. Moving to Paris in 1843, he began writing for other radical newspapers. He met Engels in Paris, and the two men worked together on a series of books. Exiled to Brussels, he became a leading figure of the Communist League, before moving back to Cologne, where he founded his own newspaper. In 1849 he was exiled again and moved to London together with his wife and children. In London, where the family was reduced to poverty, Marx continued writing and formulating his theories about the nature of society and how he believed it could be improved, and also campaigned for socialism—he became a significant figure in the International Workingmen's Association.
Adam Smith (baptised 16 June 1723 – 17 July 1790 [OS: 5 June 1723 – 17 July 1790]) was a Scottish social philosopher and a pioneer of political economy. One of the key figures of the Scottish Enlightenment, Smith is the author of The Principles Which Lead and Direct Philosophical Enquiries, Illustrated by the History of Astronomy, prior to 1758, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, 1759, and An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, 1776. The latter, usually abbreviated as The Wealth of Nations, is considered his magnum opus and the first modern work of economics. It earned him an enormous reputation and would become one of the most influential works ever published. Smith is widely cited as the father of modern economics and capitalism and is still among the most influential thinkers in the field of economics today. In 2009, Smith was named among the 'Greatest Scots' of all time, in a vote run by Scottish television channel STV.
Smith studied social philosophy at the University of Glasgow and at Balliol College in the University of Oxford, where he was one of the first students to benefit from scholarships set up by his fellow Glaswegian John Snell. After graduating, he delivered a successful series of public lectures at Edinburgh, leading him to collaborate with David Hume during the Scottish Enlightenment. Smith obtained a professorship at Glasgow teaching moral philosophy, and during this time he wrote and published The Theory of Moral Sentiments. In his later life, he took a tutoring position that allowed him to travel throughout Europe, where he met other intellectual leaders of his day. Smith then returned home and spent the next ten years writing The Wealth of Nations, publishing it in 1776. He died in 1790 at the age of 67.
Friedrich Engels (German pronunciation: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈɛŋəls]; 28 November 1820 – 5 August 1895) was a German-English industrialist, social scientist, author, political theorist, philosopher, and father of Marxist theory, alongside Karl Marx. In 1845 he published The Condition of the Working Class in England, based on personal observations and research. In 1848 he co-authored The Communist Manifesto with Karl Marx, and later he supported Marx financially to do research and write Das Kapital. After Marx's death Engels edited the second and third volumes. Additionally, Engels organized Marx's notes on the "Theories of Surplus Value" and this was later published as the "fourth volume" of Capital.
Friedrich (Frederick) Engels was born on November 28, 1820 in Barmen, Prussia (now Wuppertal, Germany). At the time, Barmen was an expanding industrial metropole and Frederick was the eldest son of a wealthy German cotton manufacturer. As his father, Friederich Sr., was a Methodist. Accordingly, Fredrick was raised Christian Pietist. As he grew up, his relationship with his parents became strained because of his atheist beliefs. Parental disapproval of his revolutionary activities is recorded in an October, 1848 letter from his mother, Elizabeth Engels. In this letter his mother berates him for having "really gone too far" and "begged" him "to proceed no further.". "You have paid more heed to other people, to strangers, and have taken no account of your mother's pleas. God alone knows what I have felt and suffered of late. I was trembling when I picked up the newspaper and saw therein that a warrant was out for my son's arrest." At the point this letter was written Frederick Engels was in hiding in Brussels, Belgium and was soon to make his way to Switzerland and then in 1849 make his way back into Germany to participate in the revolutionary uprising in Baden and Palatinate.
Avram Noam Chomsky (/ˈnoʊm ˈtʃɒmski/; born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher,cognitive scientist, historian, and activist. He is an Institute Professor and Professor (Emeritus) in the Department of Linguistics & Philosophy at MIT, where he has worked for over 50 years. Chomsky has been described as the "father of modern linguistics" and a major figure of analytic philosophy. His work has influenced fields such as computer science, mathematics, and psychology.
Ideologically identifying with anarcho-syndicalism and libertarian socialism, Chomsky is known for his critiques of U.S. foreign policy and contemporary capitalism, and he has been described as a prominent cultural figure. His media criticism has included Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (1988), co-written with Edward S. Herman, an analysis articulating the propaganda model theory for examining the media.
According to the Arts and Humanities Citation Index in 1992, Chomsky was cited as a source more often than any other living scholar from 1980 to 1992, and was the eighth most cited source overall. Chomsky is the author of over 100 books. He is credited as the creator or co-creator of the Chomsky hierarchy, the universal grammar theory, and the Chomsky–Schützenberger theorem.
Karl Marx Friedrich Engels one manifesto oh so simple
Joe Hill Angela Davis they worked so hard just to safe us
And all our history this is our history
Hey man you think is funny the boss is wasting all your
money
Truth is you can’t deny we’re struggling hard with so
much pride
And all our dignity will change our history
Right here right now in this very moment
We’re around and we’re alive
Can’t you see what is going on here
Rebellion is the way of life
Karl Marx Friedrich Engels one manifesto oh so simple
Joe Hill Angela Davis they worked so hard just to safe us
Truth is you can’t deny we’re struggling hard with so
much pride
And all our dignity will change our history
Right here right now in this very moment
We’re around and we’re alive
Can’t you see what is going on here
Rebellion is the way of life
There’s something going on
The rich protect the things they got
And things they sure begin to rot
And all our history this is your history
Right here right now in this very moment
We’re around and we’re alive
Can’t you see what is going on here