Overall, Toy Story 3 is an imperfect description of Marxist doctrine, but it does do a good job of convincing viewers to empathize with the struggles of the working class. Yet is this a reflection on technological advancement being what saves the working class? Is it the next generation of children? Or is this a tacit acknowledgement that only some kind of divine intervention or revolution can deliver the working class. Andynow almost 18is getting ready for college, and the plot follows the adventures of Andys childhood toys as theyre accidentally donated to a preschool/daycare center for a new generation of kids to enjoy, much to the toys dismay. The toys are saved by a literal deus ex machina (god from the machine), through the collective efforts of the aliens from Pizza Planet. He must care about us or we wouldnt be here.' Toy Story 3 is the 2010 sequel to Toy Story 2. However, the ultimate legacy of the Toy Story 3 Marxist interpretation is up for debate. Of course, since this is a children’s movie, they are saved. This is how the working class will meet its fate, unified as they are fed to the flames by the oligarchs. This is the scene best remembered by the public, the toys holdings hands in the face of certain death by garbage incinerator. Even when the toys, through their natural compassion, save him from being torn to pieces in the final landfill sequence, he leaves them to die in the dump anyway. In the end, as is the result of all capitalist endeavors, they end up surrounded by the garbage of overconsumption and slated for destruction. He might as well be a conservative doomsayer arguing that climate change is inevitable, or that poor people are fated to be worked to death. “We’re all just toys waiting to be thrown away!” Lotso says. The greedy nihilism of oligarchs is their greatest asset and most egregious sin. As Ken notes in the film, Lotso ruined the daycare and “put himself at the top of the pyramid”. His authoritarian rule and naked exploitation are buttressed by his powerful aristocracy. The new toys are all exploited, often worked until death or destruction. However, he later turns out to be a two-faced liar. Lotso is the preeminent capitalist shithead. “This isn’t a family, it’s a prison!” Jessie screeches. The wrenching inequality and despicable unfairness of unchecked oligarchic capitalism haunts us all. The realization that system is rigged to benefit a select few at the expense of all the rest comes for all socialists. Peter Kropotkin learned the truth while working among the peasants of Siberia. If the toys “work their way up”, they can join the ranks of the “keepers”.įriedrich Engels experienced this epiphany while living among the poor factory workers of England in the Industrial Revolution. He explains the conceit of the Daycare, where an elite aristocracy of “keeper” toys get to be played with in luxury, while the rest of the toys are thrown to the infants and worn to pieces. Potato Head, and other characters realize that Sunnyside Daycare is a nightmarish, capitalist hellhole. This occurs in the middle third of the film, when Jessie, Rex, Mr. Like all great stories of Marxist awakening, Toy Story 3 features an epiphany where the protagonists understand the rot of the system.
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