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    The Liberating, Radical Politics of Hadestown
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    1. maddiet 13 Sep 2024
      Orpheus and Eurydice’s romance is a rallying cry against the relentless slog of work, production, and pillaging of the world’s natural resources that capitalism demands.

      The author sees love as the polar opposite of production and industry. I'm not sure I agree with this. After all, Hades creates his capitalist, electric city out of love for Persephone. Hades' love isn't exactly the "good" kind of love. It's misplaced, misguided, and prioritizes control over genuine care. However, in his own messed up way, Hades does love Persephone. Essentially, I think treating love and romance as the antithesis of production is too broad a statement. I think a better way to think about this is to ask what kind of love does capitalism promote and what kind of love does it dismiss.

    2. maddiet 13 Sep 2024
      Orpheus and Eurydice’s tragedy then becomes, in the hands of Mitchell, an argument for collective bargaining. That might sound like far too literal a reading, but how else are we to interpret the show’s edit to the Greek myth that their deal with Hades also frees the workers of his factory? That Hades’s diabolical idea is to keep them apart, to compromise the solidarity they have built rising up, by sowing doubt in Orpheus’s head as he walks alone?

      Love is political because collective political action requires solidarity. A movement can only succeed with love and care for others. Orpheus doesn't succeed not because he's weak, but because Hades destroys this solidarity.

    3. maddiet 13 Sep 2024
      I've been weary of political musicals ever since a certain retelling of a founding father’s life became shorthand for extremely boring, self-congratulatory liberal politics

      this feels like a personal attack

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