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[–]MarkimusNational Socialist 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

That and the scene when he goes in the stock exchange and the guy says something like 'there's nothing to steal' and he replies 'then why are you people here?', based.

Bane really was based in rhetoric. Shame he had to be underhanded building the myth that populist and revolutionary rhetoric must necessarily be cynical demagoguery serving some nefarious end.

[–]literalotherkinNorm MacDonald Nationalism 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Shame he had to be underhanded building the myth that populist and revolutionary rhetoric must necessarily be cynical demagoguery serving some nefarious end.

True but at least his cynical form of popular revolt complete with lumpenprole and literal criminals released from prison resembles much more closely a left-anarchist brand of revolution which saves that part for me.

[–]MarkimusNational Socialist 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Lol thinking about it he's like fash in rhetoric but Maoist in praxis, he's something like Franco Freda.