Sunday Joss Blogging: The worker will overthrow absolutism and lead the proletariat to a victorious communist revolution

So the dirty commies are Joss Whedon fans (I don't know which dirty commies by the way). I always thought Serenity's politics were an interesting mix of Joss's and Tim Minear's (Tim Minear is a Republican, and I suspect a libertarian sort at that - ewww). But I can see why it would appeal to Marxists - it is a materialist vision of the future where the economic base decides the organisational and cultural superstructure (to a ridiculous degree sometimes - I never did understand why a colonising phase of capitalism would require calico to rise again).

I maintain Buffy was more left-wing though - and not just because it was more feminist, but because there were glimpses of a solution on Buffy, and that solution was join together because we're stronger that way (and to overthrow the patriarchy through a magical scythe).

For proof that Buffy is ten times the Marxist heroine Mal ever could dream of being here is her with a hammer and sickle fighting the expropriation of surplus value in a hell dimension (I'm not making any of that up but you can only see the sickle in the picture - the hammer is in her other hand):