Hunger Games, revisited

Jacobin hat eine kluge und ausreichende Interpretation der letzten Folge der „Hunger Games“. Ich hatte ganz vergessen zu erwähnen, dass ich sie mir angesehen habe. Der letzte reaktionäre Quatsch. Nicht reingehen.

The solution that the movies propose is a romantic, even regressive one in which utopia is not a collective project of establishing a more just society, but a complete retreat from politics into the private sphere. The question of exploitation is never broached; instead the answer to oppression, as the saga imagines it, is to establish capitalism rather than to move beyond it.