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[–] alexei_1917@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

There's a Marx anime?

Primo commie bait. I gotta see that.

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's called The Leader, and it's free on youtube IIRC, but you really don't. Unironically the best part of it is that it gave us two emojis. animengels animarx

[–] alexei_1917@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ah. Typical terrible media based on a historical revolutionary, libs love it, for commies it's a few hours we'll never get back, type thing? In that case, I'll pass.

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nothing like that, IIRC it was just really, really boring.

[–] alexei_1917@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago

No, yeah, that's what I mean. Post Cold War era commie bait that's absolutely not worth sitting through.

[–] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Leader_(web_series) it focuses on his romance with Jenny a lot

Also don't love the title

[–] alexei_1917@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ah, probably not my thing then. I don't like straight romance and I don't like historical figures reduced to their romantic lives.

[–] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

That's not all it is, but features more heavily than I would have thought going in, it also has the debates with Bakunin that get into political stuff, but the general consensus(even among leftist I've spoken to/read) is that it isn't great, there are much better ways to learn about the life of Marx

And I'm sure there's much better animation out of China

[–] alexei_1917@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago

there are much better ways to learn about the life of Marx

Well, obviously, I'm not expecting a good biography from an animated TV show. Just some vaguely commie tinted slop. But even then, there's a limit to how trashy of a show I'll watch just because there's communist ideas or a historical revolutionary in it.