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What’s your favorite anti-capitalist book or film?John Carpenter’s They Live, and the radio play Hercules Fountopoulos and Socrates Dassaklis in the Great Teenage Proletariat Revolution (especially the theme song – would you like me to hum a few bars?). What radicalized you? How did you first become critical of capitalism?Radicalised? Moi? Self-criticism properly engaged in requires that IContinue reading “Contributor Interview: David Stevens”

What’s your favorite anti-capitalist book or film? At the moment, the film Sorry to Bother You. I got the delight of seeing it for the first time in a theater full of socialists, with Boots Riley doing a small interview after the fact. The comedic and surreal horror of the film only emphasizes, not masks,Continue reading “Contributor Interview: Tytus Zink”

What’s your favorite anti-capitalist book or film?My favorite anti-capitalist film would be Brazil by Terry Gilliam. That film had such an affect on me both visually and with the totalitarian society. I always loved reading Orwell’s 1984 but I think Brazil made it a more visceral experience. What radicalized you? How did you first becomeContinue reading “Contributor Interview: Tim Kane”

What’s your favorite anti-capitalist book or film?     When I think of anti-capitalist media, the first thing that usually comes to mind is the aspect of classism, tied directly to racism in many cases. Bong Joon Ho’s Snowpiercer film is a brilliant post-apocalyptic take on classism and the masses rising up. Chris Evans is phenomenalContinue reading “Contributor Interview: Brennan LaFaro”

What’s your favorite anti-capitalist book or film? I don’t go in much for explicitly branded ideological fiction; like in my childhood trying to find enjoyable fiction in the Christian bookstores, setting out with a message tends to lead to weaker writing at best.  But really, any fiction that takes a serious look at the implicationsContinue reading “Contributor Interview: Nathaniel Lee”

What radicalized you? How did you first become critical of capitalism? I think it started with the Bible, which I read through as a kid because my friends and relatives argued so much about it and I wanted to understand the whole thing myself. So I took to heart Leviticus 19:18, “you shall love yourContinue reading “Contributor Interview: Joanna Michal Hoyt”

What’s your favorite anti-capitalist book or film? Robocop is my all-time favorite anti-capitalist film. It’s a film about a city being horribly transformed by capitalism. Money has removed everyone’s ability to create a community in Detroit, and turned it into a landscape of pure selfishness and fear. It’s about corporate solutions being applied to theContinue reading “Contributor Interview: M. Lopes da Silva”

What’s your favorite anti-capitalist book or film? That’s a hard one, but the first thing that came to mind was Borne by Jeff Vandermeer, mainly because it shows a variation of earth where big business and the military industrial complex has run wild and now there is a giant flying bear hovering around eating everyoneContinue reading “Contributor Interview: Corey Farrenkopf”