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Is ‘The Greatest Movie Ever Sold’ the Greatest Statement Ever Against Corporate Advertising?
By Geo Ong ‘No S***, Spurlock’: An Introduction Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock’s claim to fame was stuffing his face and risking his life with a 30-day McDonald’s diet in 2004′s Super Size Me. Though excited to watch the film, part … Continue reading
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Marx and Engels Establish New Meanings
The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains.
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Tagged amazon, chains, communism, communist manifesto, corporations, friedrich engels, karl marx, mcdonalds, money, proletarians, starbucks, Walmart
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Bad Nature, Bad Words, and Bad People: Three More Revolutionary Books
By Geo Ong Part Three of the ongoing and hopefully infinite list of revolutionary books. If you haven’t yet read Part One: Begin from Within or Part Two: You Animals!, be sure to check out those posts, too! Civil Disobedience … Continue reading
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Tagged art as social revolution, books, castro, civil disobedience, communism, communist manifesto, discrimination, essays, false consciousness, fox news, friedrich engels, gandhi, henry david thoreau, immigration, imperial, injustice, joseph mccarthy, karl marx, martin luther king jr, marxism, mccarthyism, mexican immigrants, mexican-american war, mexico, pol pot, poverty, resistance to civil government, revolution, revolutionary books, slavery, stalin, tariq ali, the idea of communism, War!, william t vollmann
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