Marx Reloaded (FR)

Marx Reloaded est un film documentaire culturel qui examine le rapport entre les idées du socialiste et philosophe allemand Karl Marx et la crise économique de 2008.

Réalisé et écrit par le théoricien Jason Barker, et produit par Medea Film pour les chaînes de télévision Arte et ZDF, Marx Reloaded comprend des interviews avec des philosophes associés aux courants de pensée marxistes, y compris ceux comme Slavoj Zizek qui croient au retour du communisme.

In 2007, an economic crisis immobilized America and spread quickly across the world.

Millions lost their homes and jobs

To save the international financial system, the government released millions of dollars

triggering a wave of indignation.

We begin to ask ourselves, perhaps it wasn't the economy, but rather Capitalism itself which was the cause.

We're bankrupt, that we know

But at the same time, we don't want to believe that everything can fall apart.

Is Capitalism in the process of self-destructing and taking with it the Planet's riches?

It's completely idiotic

Capitalism doesn't destroy riches, it creates it.

Karl Marx and the criticism of Capitalism is coming back with great force today.

In Berlin, the old thinkers have been rejuvinated

Adapting "Capital" on the spot

it's a crazy idea

The success of this spectacle is very surprising

and even totally unexpected

The riches of the capitalist society

come

from a gigantic accumulation of merchandise

Marx, he could help us out a lot

But how can the Marxist criticism help us understand

these baffling times after the crisis

The question is knowing what

Where does this infatuation with everything Marx touches come from?

Did we not think that he would die-out with the fall of the wall,

20 years ago?

What we've definetly pushed to the side

is the idea of a revolutionary dictator of the proletariat.

Have we been living in a dream?

And if our capitalist world was, in reality, an ideological illusion

which should be replaced by this communism

which we've thought was indeed buried.