Roderic Day

"You can't resist for very long a truth you discover for yourself."

[Roderic Day @RodericDay]

Whether I'll ever write again remains uncertain, but meanwhile I'm seeing where this other road takes me.
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[Roderic Day @RodericDay]

@notmitzo Red on the outside…

[Doge Xiaoping ☭ @DogeXiaoping]

As eastern marxist as it possibly gets (CPC, 1982):

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[Roderic Day @RodericDay]

Imagine if some Brazilian comrade got this job, sabotaged it from the inside, got paid, then leaked everything they learned.

[Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones]

Israeli influence firm Percepto International looking for Portugese speakers 6 months before the Brazilian elections...

[Roderic Day @RodericDay]

Much of what "progressives" in the West try pass off as "grassroots" or "radical" art is usually marinated in anarchist aesthetics, and is really just Act 1 of this process.

This is why when Act 2 comes around they do nothing but resort to the most maudlin appeals to conscience.

[Roderic Day @RodericDay]

The destruction of communist self-esteem takes two acts:

1) Demonize leadership:
"The evil cabal was hoodwinking the poor yet noble masses with unachievable promises…"

Then, after workers are without leaders:

2) Deride masses:
"Hustle like a boss or be left behind, sheeple…"

[Ollie Vargas @Ollie_Vargas_]

I've always said that these right-wing govts in Latin America are the most fragile we've seen in a generation.

They're all approaching single digit approval ratings within 3 months max. They were 'elected' by foreign intervention and are rapidly impoverishing their populations.

[Roderic Day @RodericDay]

@jessespafford @god___why >"You treat the film and the projector … the screening of a movie."

This composition doesn't strike me as illustrating dialectics.

A dialectical relationship should look like this:

(A=B)=(A≠B)

"Life is the opposite of death, but living and dying are the same process."

[Roderic Day @RodericDay]

@jessespafford @god___why This relation of identity and non-identity sets the stage for studying apparently antagonistic concepts as contradictions. Labour and capital from one perspective opposites, and yet from another identities.

What is the process by which one goes from one to the other? Etc.

[Roderic Day @RodericDay]

@Unfamiliar222 😄😄😄

The fact that you think slurping up this pile of slop makes you "tough" in some way is exactly why these stupid-ass movies aren't just completely ineffective at achieving any change, but in fact downright counterproductive.

Go write a review about it, loser.

[Roderic Day @RodericDay]

Only one kind of media project is politically useful today: people work together, achieve victory.

Imagine *firmly* positive films about the October Revolution, China's Long March, Fidel's guerillas, Vietnam, or even a teacher's union.

The "cynical critique" genre is worthless.

[Roderic Day @RodericDay]

@Unfamiliar222 >Should Iñárritu just cast himself and hold up a sign that says ‘be the change, capitalism bad’

Are you illiterate?

I've been clear: Iñarritu could make a movie showing good people successfully fighting climate change.

This "critique of the critique" thing is stale.

[Roderic Day @RodericDay]

@Bullitfhr No it can't, you're relying to sophistic arguments because you're an idiot.

To spell it out: Tom Cruise could've made a movie instead of a critique, I can not.

[Roderic Day @RodericDay]

BTW this was indirectly about "Digger" and every other "prestige critique" out there.

It doesn't matter how "harshly" you portray the rich and powerful, giving them protagonism advances *their* agency.

Any bit of media lionizing America's enemies is incomparably more dangerous.

[Roderic Day @RodericDay]

Only one kind of media project is politically useful today: people work together, achieve victory.

Imagine *firmly* positive films about the October Revolution, China's Long March, Fidel's guerillas, Vietnam, or even a teacher's union.

The "cynical critique" genre is worthless.

[Roderic Day @RodericDay]

@Bullitfhr The resources would have been better spent in a demonstration.

[Roderic Day @RodericDay]

@EnbyHoxha To expand the critique to include critical artists does not in any way make the film overcome the issue I am writing about.
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[after me🪂🔻🇵🇸the flood @u_kno_2069]

Self masturbatory art about how art is “useless” serves nobody but those in power trying to convince you that everything you do is futile. We know this isn’t the case, art has played an important role in every single revolutionary movement on earth.

[Roderic Day @RodericDay]

@RuthlessCritic3 Maybe Assembly?

I like the longer dramas like The Rebel and War of Faith even more.

[Roderic Day @RodericDay]

PS. If you're one of those who thinks "Come and See" is a good example of cynical-yet-effective Communist propaganda i.e. a counter-example to my demand for upbeat heroism, do yourself favour and read the Wikipedia page of its writer Ales Adamovich.
https://t.co/wQ8H6E5k1p

[Roderic Day @RodericDay]

This is why I hate that stupid ahistorical Vonnegut quote.

You know who *actually* put in the work? Paul Robeson. Dalton Trumbo. They sang and wrote about slave uprisings and anti-imperialism *during the Cold War*, and paid the price.

Vonnegut and his ilk? Jokers by comparison.

[Samosas Malone Redux @JurassicDunk]

This is why I liked The Creator so much. There was villainization of the white west, but the majority of the film was about the lionization of anti-western Asia