Propaganda In The Film 'Selma'

Introduction “Selma,” I think while meaning well, is another piece of counter revolutionary, ruling class propaganda. It is like a “how not to manual” in how not to make revolution, then and now. I was an activist in the days in question in this movie and all the thousands of revolutionary voices that were raised, back in the day, are more thoroughly crushed in this film than all the might of U.S. imperialist military, police, intelligence and public opinion creating machines were ever able to do in real life. The great power of cinematic art, like most art, is what one chooses to include or exclude. Philosophically, “Selma” chooses the most capitulatory, aspect of the movement of the sixties and kind of affirms …show more content…
Kwame Nkrumah, Dr. Franz Fanon, Malcolm X, Dr. Ernesto Che Guevara, Dr. W. E. B. Dubois, Karl Marx, V. I. Lenin, Mao Tse Tung, Fredrick Engels, Ho Chi Minh, and others began to show up on book tables at conventions and rallies and we read them.
Mao even taught us “political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.” So the bold “in your face” anti-gun statement in "Selma” is, actually, not very good advice and flies in the face of objective reality. All of human history has taught us that ruling classes have never given up their power without a violent struggle. So, ruling out violence leads us astray.
In any science, breaking things down into classifications is germane to the process. One of the most fundamental aspects of the science of revolution is to break society down, into classes and to identify the interests of each class.
At the top of capitalist society is the Bourgeoisie, the rich class, the 1%, the owners and controller’s of the major means of production, the major means of communication, the military and when and where war occurs. They own the government, today, mainly through campaign contributions and lobbyists.
The key interest of the rich class is to follow the first rule of capitalism, “expand or …show more content…
today, who will try to foment a race war pitting whites against blacks. There are also many blacks in the U.S. today; who believe that blacks should go it alone in their struggle because of petty betrayals in the past by petty individuals based on race. There’ve been betrayals by blacks. There are indeed pockets of racial haters among all nationalities, but history indicates that the vast majority of humanity wants to live in peace and harmony and mutual assistance and cooperation with the rest of humanity.
At any rate, our struggle must be to unite all of humanity against all exploitation and oppression including exploitation and oppression of women. We must fight, as a class, to win over all who can be won, neutralize those on the fence and prepare to wage war against the die-hards. We will and must oblige the racist warmongers and their red, white and blue stars and bars not just with defense but also, with offensive war. We've been on defense for 500 years. 500 years of their shit is enough. I, for one, am sick of it.
But, we must mount the battlefield with our whole class, the workers and oppressed of the whole world employed and unemployed and allies of the working