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the most exciting part of Marxism, the quality setting it apart from religious chiliasm or existential rebellion.

the new picture of an insuperably fractured proletariat ignores the ways in which the working class is still unified and meaningful

What’s less well understood is why so many others took the opportunity to abjure some of Marxism’s most hallowed principles

Right up to the unsatisfying, to-be-continued ending, the film’s lugubrious quality marks Hell or High Water as an example of grievance cinema

the wolf in this story is a liminal figure, an embodiment of some occult state in which binary conditions are impossibly, gruesomely conflated.