Why can’t the left do better propaganda?
Why can’t the left do better propaganda?
Besides 💰and 👁️ *
Why doesn’t the left do a propaganda like the Barbie movie or those two White-Supremist country songs?
Imagine Barbie but with class-consciousness. With all the basically free high-production tools and talent on the left, is it not possible?
*Or is it that simple?
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I dunno, I thought barbie was pretty much as left wing as a big budget comedic American licensed movie could be. (i admit i haven't watched a lot of movies) The entire movie was critiquing patriarchal society and through its themes and parallels between barbieland and the real world it talks a lot about how our society hurts people. Now it mostly doesn't go as far as to directly critique capitalism, but there is an exception with
spoiler
The Executive Board Room villains who own barbie immediately stopping their plan to change barbie land back to normal when they release that fake dishonest inclusivity is more profitable, and that's the only reason barbieland gets to change for the better
I don't remember barbie having any scenes where the status quo is justified and made to look good
Now it mostly doesn't go as far as to directly critique capitalism, but there is an exception with
Then it wasn't really left-wing
Well, considering it's a 145 million dollar product placement movie funded by Warner Brothers and the second biggest toy manufacturing company in the world, I don't think they would allow much of that. Left wing in comparison to product placement blockbusters, I suppose.
Definitely, if that movie came out in the 90s nobody would consider it particularly left or even political