Prescient

Juan Manuel de Prada writes that back in 1972 – which is incredibly early and prescient – the great Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini warned that a new form of capitalism was being born that would move dramatically to the left. Pasolini said that this left-wing capitalism would use sexual freedom and a pretense of wide-ranging , unheard-of tolerance to impoverish many and enrich few.

Pasolini was a gay Marxist. And he was horrified by what left-wing politics and the idolization of sexuality were turning into.

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