NoneOfUrBusiness

I’m not 100% on top of my Marx, but AFAIK to Marx the bourgeoisie are all members of society who own capital and whose income comes from the profits of hiring wage laborers to operate that capital. If the ultra-rich were a proper aristocracy you’d see the rest of the bourgeoisie try (and succeed) to bring them down; instead they just bicker every now and then but close ranks whenever bourgeois society is threatened. For the most part these two groups make more sense as subcategories of one class than as two separate classes, with the feudalistic behavior of the ultra-rich just being how

Unfortunately it’s getting a bit worse than Marx predicted.

How so?

On one hand, you should finish it it's really good as you might imagine. On the other hand, it's basically self-harm so fair enough.

I mean even today there are CEOs and boards of directors that can be held responsible; this is a matter of political will. Which, well, Marx didn’t call liberal democracy the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie for no reason.

Definitely. If you haven’t already, you should also read Bullshit Jobs: A Theory. Pretty enlightening stuff, though not quite as all-encompassing as Debt. If you need a sales pitch, you get to see Graeber say “I would like this book to be an arrow aimed at the heart of our civilization.”

He also observed how very hot metal turns white, the colour of the Sun.

I really hate the fact that this logic makes sense.

Edit: For the uninitiated, “it’s the same color as the sun therefore the sun is hot” is the kind of natural philosophy “proof” that we usually laugh about today, but in this case it’s actually accurate because in both cases it’s black body radiation at work.

I'm not sure how much it qualifies but this is a big part of Romelia War Chronicle (ongoing). It's not the best anime all around for multiple reasons, but this is an element it does well I think.

I suspect you'll like Apocalypse Hotel. Also not related to what you asked for at all but I can't leave you without recommending Orb: On the Movement of the Earth and Jaadugar: Witch in Mongolia.

*The West is falling behind thanks to fascists and neoliberals, Trump being an examples of the former and Carney the latter. You're letting off the Merzs and Macrons of the world too lightly.

I think it's Tatsuno Saori, but don't quote me on it.

historical revisionists

Uh… no? Revisionism just means “critically challenging the mainstream historical narrative.” “Lee was actually an evil slaveholder who fought for slavery fuck him” is the revisionist narrative here. The word gets a bad rep because certain people only like to revise narratives about how fascism is bad actually, but revisionism is an important part of studying history, as any historian will tell you.

Late answer but Re:Zero probably fits. I don't think it's impossible, but I'm not sure how I'd make the story work without the isekai element.

You're not supposed to like Tanya, but also it's not about fascism. The mechanics of the actual fighting are closer to WWII, but for the most part this is the more "everybody here sucks" framing of WWI. That said the second season does have plenty of condemnation for fantasy Germany; it's just not condemnation of fascism per se.

It's fanart of Mushoku Tensei referencing the latest episode.

Tenmaku no Jaadugar. Seriously go watch it right now, it's a fictionalized biography about a (real, she has a Wikipedia page) Persian woman who gets forcibly taken to Mongolia during the Mongol conquests of the early 13th century. I could technically describe it as a court drama, but it's much more human than that.

Selling points:

-Nuanced and human takes on difficult topics like slavery and conquest; it has a way of making you have strong mixed feelings (in a good way) about characters who would be either whitewashed or made comically evil in lesser works. This extends to the court politics, and you get to see the human motivation behind what everybody is doing.
-An impressive depiction of the emotional struggles of the protagonist trying to process a new and difficult situation; you really feel the confusion she has about what she's supposed to feel alongside her conviction.
-A whole cast of realistic, strong and independent female characters. Helped partially by the setting (Mongolia was somewhat egalitarian for the time period), you get a feel of how they'd act to get their way in a position where they for the most part have little formal authority.
-A wonderfully historical depiction of, well, basically everything. The author has clearly done their research, making it alongside everything else a very informative experience about how the Mongols of that period actually lived. This also gives grounding that makes everything else hit that much harder.

If you like it, you should then try Apothecary Diaries and Orb: On the Movement of the Earth, which are both amazing recent additions to the historical fiction genre, though they both take more liberties than Jaadugar.

Okay obligatory shilling over. There's actually an ongoing faithful anime series adaptation of the Ghost in the Shell manga, so you should probably watch that if you aren't already. There's also an ongoing adaptation of a manga by the author of Full Metal Alchemist, so ditto for that. They're respectively The Ghost in the Shell and Daemons of the Shadow Realm.

Well that's gonna be embarrassing if this ends up as an anime.

It is, final volume came out in English last year.

I know LN readers can be annoying when they say this, but you're seriously missing out by not reading the novels. They're on a completely different level, and probably would be even if the anime got a Frieren-level budget, which it almost certainly won't.

Let's just hope it gets a decent budget, or at least enough for twelve episodes stares at season 3.

*Until rich fucks gobble up all the newly cheap houses again. You can't win with capitalism.