Editing RoboCop 2 (section)

=== Politics and corporations ===
Kershner took the offer to direct ''RoboCop 2''.{{Sfn|Johnson|1990b|pp=45–46}} ''RoboCop 2'' continues the first film's [[RoboCop#Thematic analysis|critiques on American capitalism, corporate power and its resulting militarization and other perceived negative impacts]];<ref name = "SocialistWorkers"/>{{Sfn|Johnson|1990b|pp=45–46}} the city's greedy politics continue to benefit only a few, while other citizens have to face problems of crime, pollution, and infrastructure dilapidation due to inadequate restructuring and police strikes.<ref name = "SocialistWorkers">{{cite web|last=Johnson|first=Craig|date=21 February 2014|url=https://socialistworker.org/2014/02/21/robocop-and-the-surveillance-state|title=RoboCop and the surveillance state|work=[[International Socialist Organization]]|access-date=13 February 2021|archive-date=February 12, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200212034412/http://socialistworker.org/2014/02/21/robocop-and-the-surveillance-state|url-status=live}}</ref> Unlike the predecessor which had a self-aware tone and was hopeful the human race would last due to its rebelliousness, ''RoboCop 2''{{'}}s take on the corporate and political system is cynical, and more in the forefront of the story, with more staff of Omni-Consumer Products (including its CEO) becoming antagonists.<ref name = "SlantTrilogy">{{cite web|last=Cabin|first=Chris|date=October 26, 2010|url=https://www.slantmagazine.com/dvd/robocop-trilogy/|title=Blu-ray Review: The ''RoboCop'' Trilogy on MGM Home Entertainment|work=[[Slant Magazine]]|access-date=February 13, 2021|archive-date=December 4, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201204212709/https://www.slantmagazine.com/dvd/robocop-trilogy/|url-status=live}}</ref> It also includes a few humorous pokes at [[Neoclassical liberalism|bleeding-heart liberalism]], such as OCP recoding RoboCop into an environmentalist role model.<ref name = "SlantTrilogy"/>

The creation of a second RoboCop to repeat the success of the original cyborg can be interpreted as a take on [[Planned obsolescence|companies making their older products quickly out-of-date in order to keep selling new ones]], and RoboCop 2's uncontrolled murdering of humans showcases how corporate entities devalue human life to a variable in an equation.<ref name = "SocialistWorkers"/> More mock advertisements are seen, such as the MagnaVolt security system that electrocutes car thieves, and the Sunblock 5000, a blue-and-green skincare product which can cause skin cancer itself to prevent getting [[skin cancer]] "ever since we lost the ozone layer."<ref name = "SocialistWorkers"/> Noonan's idea behind Cain being a hippie was that a love for sex and drugs and hatred for law enforcement (common aspects of hippies) were negatively impacting a 1990s' Detroit.{{Sfn|Counts|1990|p=45}}