Movies vs. Capitalism

A Soldier’s Story (w/ Jason Myles)

Jul 4, 2023

01:18:10

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Episode notes

Introduction

2min

How Was Your Weekend?

2min

The Writer's Guild Strike

3min

The Fear of Losing Your Rights

3min

Joe Biden's Fear Based Response to the Supreme Court Decisions

2min

The Lever's Anti-Capitalist Podcast

2min

The Hot Labor Summer Tour

3min

The CIA Shows Up at Your House

2min

The Politics of Music

4min

10.

Stakes Is High: A De La Soul Album From 96

3min

11.

The Murder Mystery of a Soldier's Story

2min

12.

The McMarten Trial

2min

13.

How to Dispel Good Guy, Bad Guy Narratives

3min

14.

The GI Bill and the Deep South

3min

15.

The Sargent's Relationship With Black People

2min

16.

The Bootstraps Guy

6min

17.

The Story of Negro

2min

18.

The Importance of Class Racism

2min

19.

The Challenges of Black Officers in the Military

3min

20.

Denzel Washington's Coon

3min

21.

The Sergeant's Journey Through Black Cinema

5min

22.

The Politics of Blackness

2min

23.

The Catch All Answer to the Pandemic

2min

24.

The Oversimplification of Conflicts in Film

5min

25.

The Importance of Class Reduction

2min

26.

The Investigator: A Movie Review

2min

27.

The Blues

2min

28.

Private Henson: A Character's Story

2min

29.

How to Practice Anti-Capitalism in Your Day-to-Day Life

3min

Rivka and Frank are joined by musician, writer, and This Is Revolution host Jason Myles, to talk about the 1984 military drama, A Soldier’s Story, which depicts a racially motivated murder at a Louisiana Army base during World War II. They unpack how the film. based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play A Soldier’s Play, presents the complex perspectives of the Black community on morality, respectability, and violence.

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