it's called "the young karl marx."ul peck is an acclaimed haitian filmmaker and a political activist. his documentary, "i am not your negro" just won the top documentary prize at the british academy film awards, or bafta, on sunday. it was also nominated for an oscar in 2017. his previous films include "lumumba: death of a prophet" as well as "haiti, the silence of the dogs." he also briefly served as haiti's culture minister in the 1990's. raoul peck, welcome to democracy now! >> thank you for having me. and make a let's start right there. you're in this country fresh in from paris to talk about your new film "the young karl marx." what is your response to wayne lapierre? >> i'm not sure i have to respond. one thing i would say, though, if he is saying so many teachers, so many institutions put karl marx on the curriculum, they probably are doing something right. and i think it would help discussion around what is karl marx, what is -- is a great economists that he is, somebody who changed the whole discourse about cl

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hollywood is a place were nobody to the right of karl marx and get a job or anyone who voted for president trump who hides for fear of losing their crew. it is where it is impossible to make a movie about evil jihadists. you're talking about hollywood, these purveyors of pc, where suburban families -- deep abiding relationships. where women are molested every day by powerful man, and where hose same men talk about our lack of moral decency. hese folks, hollywood, universities, many of them in the media, these are the purveyors of political correctness. we americans are by nature olite. we follow rules. we care about not offending other people. we want people to feel respected. we like each other for the most part, and are not that interested in picking off our neighbors. maybe it was the specter of the president nodding -- or maybe it was something new nd chucking. maybe it was a culture that taught every traditional value to be overcome. maybe we got frustrated with llies. the people said enough. we said enough. we said you do not get to lie about america. i will not want about america if

karl marx is the most assigned economist. and there are over 100 chapters at many universities and students are even earning academic credit for promoting socialist causes. in too many classrooms, all over the united states, and i know that you think about this when you decide where you will send your kids to school and your kids think about it too, the u.s. constitution is ignored, u.s. history is perverted, and the second amendment freedom in this country is despised. you know, some people out there think that the nra should just stick to its second amendment agenda and not talk about all of our freedoms. but real freedom requires protection of all of our rights. and the second amendment isn't worth its own words in a country where all of our other individual freedoms are destroyed. [applause] so i promise you this -- the nra will not only speak out, we will speak out loud or and we -- louder and we will speak out stronger than ever before. [applause] we will do it through nra tv and our media operations, which will expand

the gene ology of this second stage is long and begins with karl marx or, rather with the italian marxist antonio gramsky. he believed that marx had missed an important detail in describing how the working class should one fine day overthrow the capital it ruling class marx designed the working class oppressed by the political and economic power of the european political ruling classes. gramsky believed that matters were worse than that the working class is oppressed he said not only by the political and economic power of the european ruling classes but by ruling class culture which entices an persuades the working class to adopt the cultural values and attitudes of their rulers. political revolution therefore would have to be about the overthrow of that culture first. gramsy's ideas won their biggest following of americans of the new left in the 1960s. under the plea of free speech complained herbert markusa, the doyan of the new left, tolerance is extended to policies, conditions and modes of behavior which should not be tolerated because the tolerance expressed in such impartiality ser

karl marx said that philosophers interpret the world, the point is to change it. he had no intention of wanting to use this writing to change sos feltd, whereas despa the purpose of writing was to change the world. his extraordinary antiwar novels were intended to try to prevent another war. discovered,ng i again, dropping in and viewing things from the outside, that i thought made the story so interesting, was that these books would eventually be read by the very group of people who would go on to fight the next war. in a sense, the greatest generation was raised on andrature about first war, literature affects you in a great fashion. reflecting on what steve said, and may be you can speak about this. hemingway comes from the newsroom to the war. dos passos comes from a sheltered, liberal, left wing community in cambridge. perhaps hemingway's first about the warte is the sense of writing a wasrt, whereas dos passos already infected with a sense of i want to change the world. >> we tend to think of the war ended in 1918, when, in fact, it went on and on for severa

the genealogy of the second stage begins with karl marx or rather with the italian marxist antonio graham ski. graham ski believed that marks had missed an important detail in describing how the working class should one fine day overthrow the capitalist class. marx described it as oppressed by the political and economic power of the ruling classes. graham ski however believe that matters were personal to the working class as oppressed he said not only by the political and economic power of the european classes but ruling class culture which entices and persuades the working class to adopt the cultural values of their norms. political revolution therefore would have to be about the overthrow of that culture first. graham ski's ideas among americans of the left in the 1960s under the plea of free speech complained herbert mark uzoh tolerance is extended to policies, conditions and modes of behavior which should not be tolerated because the tolerance expressed in such impartiality serve to minimize or even absolve prevailing intolerance and suppression. this is practically indistinguishable

karl marx is now the most assigned economists and young democratic socialists of america and students earning academic credit for promoting socialist causes. in too many classrooms all over the united states. i know you think about this when you decide where you will send your kids to school and your kids think about it, too. the united states constitution is ignored, united states history is perverted, and the second amendment freedom in this country is despised. you know, some people out there think the nra should just stick to its second amendment agenda and not talk about all of our freedoms. but real freedom requires protection of all of our rights. and a second amendment isn't worth its own words in a country where all of our other individual freedoms are destroyed. [applause] so i promise you this, the nra will not only speak out, we will speak out louder and we will speak out stronger than ever before. [cheering and applause] we will do it through nra tv and our media operations which will expand to reach a growing audience of americans that are looking all over this country f

bloomberg, tom steyer, european style socialism, young democratic socialists, college campuses, karl marxe national media, safe speech zones, berkeley, some hollywood gala, nbc, the "new york times," the "washington post." >> i got a lot of problems with you people! now you're gonna hear about it. >> oh, my gosh. the nra is under intense criticism -- >> by the way, we cut it off right before he said the end of it with "and a partridge in a pear tree." that was a great list. >> in the wake of yet another school shooting, but as you heard there yesterday, chief executive wayne lapierre and spokesperson dana loesch said a lot of other people are to blame for society's problems, not assault weapons. welcome back to "morning joe," it's friday, february 23. with us, we have nbc news capitol hill correspondent and host of kasie d.c. on msnbc, kase kasie hunt. jeremy peters, mark leibovich, jonathan swan, and joining the conversation, editor at large of the "weekly standard," bill kristol. good to have you on board. >> bill, a lot to talk about. >> welcome to washington. >> thank you, we love it

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