History UsefulNotes / PoliticalIdeologies

* ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'' interestingly flips the usual representation of ThoseWackyNazis in modern culture. Here, the AffablyEvil Nazis are diverse (with distinct regional accents), individualized, and WickedCultured, while the Jewish title characters are depicted as brutal monoethnic invaders against whom the Nazis feel they must defend their homes. Creator/QuentinTarantino intended this as a meditation on how media frames "good guys" and "bad guys" (describing the Basterds as "not your normal hero types that are thrown into a big deal in [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII the Second World War]]"), though some audience members misinterpreted the movie as framing the Basterds as uncomplicatedly heroic badasses, or conversely as arguing that maybe the Nazis weren't so bad after all.

* ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'' interestingly flips the usual representation of ThoseWackyNazis in modern culture. Here, the AffablyEvil Nazis are diverse (with distinct regional accents), individualized, and WickedCultured, while the Jewish title characters are depicted as brutal monoethnic invaders against whom the Nazis feel they must defend their homes. Creator/QuentinTarantino intended this as a meditation on how media frames "good guys" and "bad guys" (describing the Basterds as "not your normal hero types that are thrown into a big deal in [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII the Second World War]]"), though many audience members misinterpreted the movie as framing the Basterds as uncomplicatedly heroic badasses, or conversely as arguing that maybe the Nazis weren't so bad after all.

* ''Film/PansLabyrinth'', a depiction of the aftermath of the UsefulNotes/SpanishCivilWar which is heavily sympathetic to the surviving anarchists. His earlier film ''Film/TheDevilsBackbone'', set during the war and considered the first part of a loose trilogy with ''Pan's Labyrinth'' and an as-yet-unproduced third film, may also be considered to fit here.

* Music/KanyeWest has been [[https://www.outlookindia.com/art-entertainment/kanye-west-has-been-praising-adolf-hitler-since-20-years-news-245469 weirdly]] [[https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/kanye-wests-love-of-hitler-and-nazis-allegedly-goes-back-20-years-1234647700/ infatuated]] with Hitler and Nazism since the start of his career, even incorporating Nazi propaganda techniques into his own public image, though he only went fully public about these views in TheNewTwenties (though a few months later he publicly disavowed antisemitism based on, of all things, his appreciation of Jewish actor Creator/JonahHill's performance in ''Film/TwentyOneJumpStreet''). Ironically he grew up in a ''left''-wing family, reflected in his earlier career when he argued that "[[UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush George Bush]] doesn't care about Black people" in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and expressed support for UsefulNotes/BarackObama. Starting in TheNewTens, though, he became better known for right-wing views such as support for UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump.

** The 3 other in-game factions roughly correspond to real-life political ideologies. The Legion is fascist, with a domineering, imperialist military ideology that views women as property, The NCR is neoliberal, being expansionist but not nearly as violent and cruel as the Legion, and generally egalitarian, and Mr.House is libertarian, essentially privately owning the Vegas Strip as his own abode. The game itself deconstructs this by pointing out that Mr.House is essentially a private dictator, which is a common criticism anarchists make towards right-wing libertarians.

Having developed out of the same European socialist movement that spawned Karl Marx's writing, anarchism's relationship to Marxism has always been ambivalent. While many anarchists accepted Marx's critique of capitalism and (with nuance) the Marxian school of economics, they strenuously rejected Marx's politics, in particular the tactic of taking state power as a way to bring about socialism. For anarchists like Mikhail Bakunin (Marx's rival in the First International) the state was inherently an institution of class rule, and could never be used to bring about a classless society as it would just corrupt whatever group laid their hands on it. They also tended to reject the Marxist conception of history — historical materialism — which claims that economic and technological factors are the fundamental driving force of human development. Anarchists saw this perspective as reductionist and ignoring important social factors that weren't directly related to economics. Also, while Marxists see the proletariat (the urban industrial working class) as the fundamental agents of revolution, anarchists also saw revolutionary potential in the rural peasantry and social outcasts (the lumpen-proletariat) which Marxists tend to dismiss as 'backward.' In light of how Marxist played out during the 20th century, a majority feel this criticism has been {{vindicated by history}} (however, anarchists faced some of the same problems when putting their idea into practice, most notably during the Spanish Revolution).

Literary Fiction:
* ''Literature/HarryPotter'' has been noted by some [[https://youtu.be/g4TEtalsISY as having views sympathetic to Libertarianism]]. Of note: it strongly condemns racism and authoritarianism while also being markedly sympathetic in its depiction of a private school system, generally skeptical of progressive grassroots political activism, and mostly supportive of success based on individual effort and aptitude.

* ''Literature/TheSwordOfTruth'' series by Creator/TerryGoodkind

* Music/{{Rush}} was infamously inspired by Objectivism in their earlier albums, as seen most obviously in 2112, although their drummer would later [[OldShame come to regret those lyrics and change his political views.]]

* ''Mine Were of Trouble'' by Peter Kemp, which is a memoir of a British volunteer who fought on the Nationalist side of the Spanish Civil War.