Das Kapital - The Musical

March 24, 2009 6:29 AM

You've read the book, attended the seminars and pondered the accumulation of surplus value – now see the musical.
posted by Kirth Gerson (11 comments total)

The book was better.
posted by ardgedee at 6:54 AM on March 24, 2009 [1 favorite]

Another Marxist musical
posted by Joe Beese at 6:55 AM on March 24, 2009

Another unlikely musical from Asia
posted by Kirth Gerson at 7:02 AM on March 24, 2009

Guardian article on the Das Kapital musical - the source of the FPP quote.
posted by Kirth Gerson at 7:06 AM on March 24, 2009

Hey, Ayn Rand made bad art. Why should the extreme right wingers have all the fun?

Stalin would have LOVED this. He used to enjoy watching American westerns and critiquing them according to how much they deviated from the communist ideology.
posted by orange swan at 7:13 AM on March 24, 2009

Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.
posted by Abiezer at 7:28 AM on March 24, 2009 [2 favorites]

As usual, central Illinois was there first!
posted by washburn at 7:34 AM on March 24, 2009

Heureux qui comme Edouard - internationale fun! (altho i like the soviet anthem better ;)
posted by kliuless at 8:26 AM on March 24, 2009

If they can make Les Miserables into a musical then anything is fair game.
posted by Zambrano at 9:10 AM on March 24, 2009

Stalin would have LOVED this. He used to enjoy watching American westerns and critiquing them according to how much they deviated from the communist ideology.

The modern-day equivalent would be Maoists reviewing videogames.
posted by Pope Guilty at 1:15 PM on March 24, 2009

All singing! All dancing! All according to their need!
posted by The Whelk at 8:56 AM on March 29, 2009