29 December 2010

Marx Reloaded

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Medea Film will release a cultural documentary titled "Marx Reloaded" in 2011. Directed by Jason Barker and Alexandra Weltz, the 52 minute movie is trying to make sense of the recent global crisis by revisiting the ideas of the German philosopher Karl Marx. From the trailer:

In the early months of 2008 a huge event began to rock the global financial system to its foundations. Billions of dollars were wiped off share prices and commercial banks throughout the world began to collapse like a pack of cards. As the global economy entered the deepest recession for 70 years the message from the mainstream media was simple: this was an anomaly, an isolated financial "blip" as unpredictable as a tsunami or lightening strike. Although devastating for the millions of ordinary people around the world whose homes were lost and whose jobs and savings disappeared into thin air, the crisis itself was simply one of those extraordinary things: a cataclysm that escapes all rational thinking.

But what were the real origins of this crisis? And what are its ongoing implications for the future prosperity of us all?



But as one commentator said:

It's easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism...


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