This blog first saw the light of day many years ago, in an enthusiastic effort to analyze the Matrix trilogy of movies by referencing Karl Marx’s writings and critique of capitalist social relations. That analysis turned out to be so germane, it allowed me to see so much more and so much more clearly into the movies and their detailed and complex narrative, that it laid the first brick of a process whereby I’ve come to see much of the world around me, and not just the movies, as a Marxian matrix.

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