Karl Marx, born on this day in 1818, was a foundational political theorist and journalist associated with the philosophy of Marxism.
Among Marx's best-known texts are the "The Communist Manifesto" and the three-volume "Das Kapital", in which he set out to define and explain the behavior of the capitalist mode of production.
Marx's political and philosophical thought have had enormous influence on subsequent intellectual, economic and political history, and his name has been used as an adjective, a noun, and a school of social theory.
Marx's critical theories about society, economics and politics - collectively understood as Marxism - hold that human societies develop through class conflict. In capitalism, this manifests itself in the conflict between the ruling classes (known as the bourgeoisie) that control the means of production, and the working classes (known as the proletariat) that enable these means by selling their labor power in return for wages.
Employing a critical approach known as historical materialism, Marx concluded that, like previous socio-economic systems, capitalism produced internal tensions which would lead to its self-destruction and replacement by a new system known as socialism.
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It's a shame that the new Spike Lee remake of High and Low finished filming months before the Healthcare CEO shooting.
Feels like doing an interpretation of that and going way more in depth on the subject of the death penalty would be the main interesting take that an American remake could have.
Instead the new trailer just kind of looks like shitty aura and hype moments with little to no substance. Obviously a 1 minute trailer will be limited, but it kind of gives off the same red flags as his Oldboy remake. A more low key thriller reinterpreted as bombastic and flashy.
So far it seems like the only real details out there on the new film is that the main character is a big name music CEO instead of a mid tier shoe company executive.
The music mogul thing definitely worries me about the main actual conflict of the first half of the story.
Like with the shoe executive thing you have, if you accept the films terms, an actual dilemma between the immediate human good that saving his chaffeurs kid would do, and the fact that he's liquidated all his shit to prevent the shoe company from making shoes out of paper so they break in time for the next season, instead trying to provide a theoretically broader social good of providing quality shoes that people can rely on.
But with a music mogul I can't really conceptualize what transforms the dilemma of "do I spend money on a peasants brat or hoard it like a big dragon?" to something that an audience can buy as a hard decision outside of personal financial trouble. Like is he gonna try and stop the company from making AI playlists?