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Jack Graham

Jack Graham writes and podcasts about culture and politics from a Gothic Marxist-Humanist perspective. He co-hosts the I Don't Speak German podcast with Daniel Harper. Support Jack on Patreon.

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  1. Roobin
    September 7, 2012 @ 11:51 am

    A fascinating observation by Gramsci: the French Revolution was the Reformation + the Renaissance. It is worth speculating (so long as we accept there is no definitive conclusion) whether a popular movement could have been harnessed to a superior worldview in medieval Italy or Germany. It wasn't, and the class struggle set both countries (and the rest of Europe) back for centuries. We're quite possibly paying a similar price for Stalinism today.

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  2. drfgsdgsdf
    September 7, 2012 @ 11:57 am

    It was a bit like The Tudors meet Dexter then? Bit disappointed to see Neil Jordan's and David Leland's…and John Maybury's names on this (Jon Amiel's just makes me do a little sad face)

    If you'd told me, 20 years ago, this is what these firebrand directors would end up doing….I'd actually probably have gone "Borgias-cool!" More innocent times

    At least it looks good and isn't about lawyers/detectives. Maybe it will give them the clout to make their own….who am I kidding. At least they're not starving. I'll put off watching Mona Lisa for a while

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