Social Theory Reflection Paper #2
Identify three ideas from the Communist Manifesto and Capital that are dramatized in today’s film, Sorry to
Bother You.
Explain each one and describe the way in which it is articulated in the film.
Some possibilities are:
The central role of class struggle in society
The relationship of culture to class dynamics
The privileging of quantitative over qualitative value
Capital’s push toward endless growth
Profit through the exploitation of labor-power
How capital inevitably plants the seeds of its own destruction