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  • Angolan Civil War seems less complex

    MPLA has a typical Soviet Marxist Leninist urban working class approach, not being sectarian regarding tribe or ethnicity, and so thus supported by USSR, Warsaw Pact and Cuba

    UNITA has support from majority peasant Ovimbundu and supported by Maoist China early on but mostly Amerikkka and Apartheid South Africa, and I’d argue they ceased to be Maoist by then and purely reactionary.

    But tell me about Horn of Africa and it’s a huge fuck up of Communists fighting each other over ethnicity

    DERG VS SOMALI VS Eritrea VS Tigray

    But ah well, to destroy a deviationist Communist party is no loss, to keep them is not gain, even if they’re under the ML banner


  • then you’ll find that Bugonia also has some heavy handed political themes and a lot of similar 1 to 1 drama. I felt like Bugonia was a very Nietszche movie: it talks about domination, taking control of situations, endless cycles of human suffering, hopeless utopias, the slave-master dialectic, genealogy of morals (literally they do talk about genealogy influencing morals). But I also get the sense that it doesn’t necessarily endorse that framework, because the situation that makes that framework apply is pretty ridiculous and is kinda played for laughs.

    Yep, I guess he nailed it down the substance of the original movie, Save the Green Planet, which he made Bugonia a remake of.