So, I guess sort of like Hamilton, but with Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin.

This idea is either brilliant or incredibly terrible. You be the judge.

Discuss.

  • sailorfish [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    5 years ago

    Ask the tiktok kids to do it. They’ve already done a musical of Ratatouille, Avatar the Last Airbender, and having a fight with your SO in the grocery store.

    • T_Doug [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      5 years ago

      So many leftists have internalized the Liberal myth of Trotsky (he’s just like Snowball from the farm animal book!!!), and in contrarianism now have an equally inaccurate view of the man. One formed almost entirely by memes, with no examination of his actual actions, and thought.

      Like yeah, the guy who: led the Red army in the Russian Civil War, and supported the Chinese Communists when the Party (including Stalin) backed the Kuomintang) must’ve just been a huge Lib all that time.

      Read “The Revolution Betrayed”, its good and Trotsky’s has only been vindicated in his belief that the USSR would fall as a result of a Capitalistic restoration led by the Bureaucracy.

      Just because some shitty parties call themselves “Trotskyist” doesn’t mean the man was bad, Euro-Communism was led by shitty parties who called themselves Marxist.

  • The_word_of_dog [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    5 years ago

    I had a dream where I wrote a musical about Jeff bezos. The lead actor descended onto the stage via delivery drones.

    I have very vivid dreams when I’m on a drink.

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      5 years ago

      They also would probably make Nicky a tragic hero who truly cared for his people and wanted to do good but just wasn’t up to the job.

      • CatherineTheSoSo [any]@hexbear.net
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        5 years ago

        Russian government’s position can be summarised as “Lenin bad, Stalin good” for obvious reasons. They financed an expensive movie about the Decemberist revolt which took liberties to portray revolutionaries as misguided idealists at best.