This is a blog for the community of Sociology 101B: "Sociological Theory," in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, Spring 2009.
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Sovereign Power and Repression
Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Courtesy of Youtube and Mike Levien.
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What a wonderful laugh! Marx and Engels must be very proud of Dennis and his good lady.We should see this as a class, on a big screen, after every midterm!
hahahahhahahahahahahaahaha i love this. Dennis is such a Marxist. . . Clearly, he is looking from "outside" of the whole system, though, for he can identify what it means to be a peasant (ridiculed, repressed, oppressed, exploited), and knows how the system works (dictatorship, perpetuatng economic and social differences, exploitation, "violence inherent in the system," etc.) When Dennis says, "Classes is what it's all about," it echoes the basics of Marxist theory: it's all about class struggle...
Anyway, I love this clip.. "Help! Help! I'm bein repressed!" hahaha so freakin' funny..
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What a wonderful laugh! Marx and Engels must be very proud of Dennis and his good lady.We should see this as a class, on a big screen, after every midterm!
And they are no sack of potatoes.
hahahahhahahahahahahaahaha i love this. Dennis is such a Marxist. . .
Clearly, he is looking from "outside" of the whole system, though, for he can identify what it means to be a peasant (ridiculed, repressed, oppressed, exploited), and knows how the system works (dictatorship, perpetuatng economic and social differences, exploitation, "violence inherent in the system," etc.)
When Dennis says, "Classes is what it's all about," it echoes the basics of Marxist theory: it's all about class struggle...
Anyway, I love this clip.. "Help! Help! I'm bein repressed!" hahaha so freakin' funny..
Hahaha! To think of all the nuances in Monty Python I missed when I was younger. I love it :)
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