Politics is probably the dominant field of surrealist comedy, since economics tends to be a bit less accessible for the common audience.
In 1973 René Viénet produced a delightful feature-length movie “Can Dialectics Break Bricks” in which he (and others) did voiceovers on a bad martial arts movie.
![Can Dialectics Break Bricks?](https://freethoughtblogs.com/stderr/files/2016/08/dialectic.jpeg)
Can Dialectics Break Bricks?
By overlaying the underlying conflict and drama (such as there was) in the movie with political cant, he made it kind of funny.
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Our tactics…
The villains, of course, are reactionaries supporting the corporate interests against the collective workers. It’s a jargon extravaganza that has moments that will make you laugh out loud.
The only problem is: those moments are few and far between.
![Send in the sociologists!](https://freethoughtblogs.com/stderr/files/2016/08/bricks-2-300x173.jpg)
Send in the sociologists!
It’s sort of Monty Pythonesque. “Poke him with the soft cushions!”
I love the occasional tidbits like threatening to send in a sociologist.
Which reminds me of a joke.
One day, after decades of quiet work in a department of some agency of the British government, a civil servant walks in to their supervisor’s office, sits down, and announces, “That’s IT! I have finally lost my temper and I am HERE to COMPLAIN!” The supervisor is taken aback and says, “Dear me, what is the matter?” “I’ve been a solid performer for twenty years and I am afraid that my career here has been held back because I am a socialist.” The supervisor stops polishing their glasses and looks up, startled, then pulls a manila folder out of their desk and examines it, flipping through a few pages, “Oh, dear me. There has been a terrible mistake. We thought you were a sociologist.”
Another thought provoking line from the film, “A toast to the exploited: For the extermination of the exploiters.”