Modern Times (w/ Pedro Ángel Rivera Muñoz)
Movies vs. Capitalism
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Chaplin and the Soviet Union in the 1930s
This is like in a way the peak of capitalist rationality and also the crisis of it, because in the 1930s, the capitalist rationality is being questioned. The Soviet Union was seen as a place to admire, to look for, you know, that's the society that we want. In the case of Chaplin in the same way that Chaplin was not as your ideologically speaking a communist. He was accused of being a communist, but he denied being a communist,. Although he was a communist affiliate and sympathize her ostensibly. Right, and he was he was an anti-communist for sure.
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