Reply #71 on: April 22, 2004, 09:42:18 AM
Pretty sure this hasn't been mentioned yet...
and even though I've never seen this movie, I walked by the library and read the back, and it would seem that QT got his starting point from it:
The Bride Wore Black by Truffaut.
Lady wronged on her wedding day seeks bloody revenge. I've been meaning to, but haven't got around to watching it yet. Anybody seen? Confirm/deny as a reference point?
Those who say that the totalitarian state of the Soviet Union was not "real" Marxism also cannot admit that one simple feature of Marxism makes totalitarianism necessary: the rejection of civil society. Since civil society is the sphere of private activity, its abolition and replacement by political society means that nothing private remains. That is already the essence of totalitarianism; and the moralistic practice of the trendy Left, which regards everything as political and sometimes reveals its hostility to free speech, does nothing to contradict this implication.
When those who hated capital and consumption (and Jews) in the 20th century murdered some hundred million people, and the poster children for the struggle against international capitalism and America are now fanatical Islamic terrorists, this puts recent enthusiasts in an awkward position. Most of them are too dense and shameless to appreciate it, and far too many are taken in by the moralistic and paternalistic rhetoric of the Left.