Episode 311: Scaring The Bros by Trillbilly Worker's Party published on 2023-10-06T13:04:50Z First we confer with our friends over at Compact Mag about how leftists should be more interested in ancient Rome. Then we talk about how the rest of the world is laffin at us. Finally we take a look at a rural community in Michigan who is apparently fighting the red tide. Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty Comment by redleader antilles And another thing, the author treats the film as if it is what embodies the leftist vision of Spartacus. The film came out a century after Marx and decades after Luxemburg, it had no fucking relevance to creating how leftists view the figure. Hell if you want examples of blatantly leftist works look to Brecht's play on Spartacus, or to older works that inspired Rosa. 2023-10-10T16:32:13Z Comment by redleader antilles Also this author treats Spartacus as a symbol of Rome being cool or good. Literally the reason we know about him is because he hated Rome and fought against it. We idealize him for his opposition to Rome 2023-10-10T16:29:02Z Comment by redleader antilles God this analysis is insane. I have thought quite a bit about Spartacus and his legacy, but not that leftists would cancel him. Look back over a century and you will find bourgeois historians "fact-checking" communists who used him as a hero. Like it ain't the left canceling him, libs have been "um aktually"ing him since forever. They love to act like he is not a good example because he was not literally a communist, which is something no leftist criticizes him or any ancient figure for because our view of history is one of development. Marxism is contingent on history needing to develop and produce people and moments to overthrow the given dominant class. 2023-10-10T16:25:56Z