Why Squid Game is Karl Marx' favorite show Arts & Entertainment with Chris & Randall

Randall talks to Chris about how Squid Game is ideologically aligned with Marxist thought.

Topics discussed include:
Saturday Night Live sketch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWdHPMhy270
Other shows that tackle class conflict: http://www.imdb.com/list/ls550916663/
A Christmas Carol
https://labornotes.org/blogs/2021/10/real-life-auto-strike-behind-runaway-netflix-hit-squid-game
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_Massacre
the relationship between capitalism and gambling
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/the-role-of-luck-in-life-success-is-far-greater-than-we-realized/
How voluntary is participation in the capitalist system?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobson%27s_choice
Marxist view of criminality
the Marble Game
212 Mi-nyeo -- the seductress
the guards
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_consciousness
the Front Man
the VIPs
"All for ourselves and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind." —Adam Smith
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-wealth-reduces-compassion/

recorded October 20, 2021
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