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That's a great scene.
There's one guy saying Latinos in the U.S. are treated like Blacks, "spics."
Then a professorial Marxist takes the floor who says that
underdevelopment is a wrong idea or term or something like that, because
the clash between US imperialism and Asia, Africa and Latin America
isn't the fundamental contradiction, but rather the contradiction
between the impetuous development of the forces of production and the
forms and relations of production of capitalism, in other words between
socialism and the capitalist system.
To which another one of the panelists answers that stuff about the
bourgeoisie and proletarians is right in the abstract, but when it comes
down from the level of abstraction to the real world, it is transformed
into war. So the fundamental contradiction is not, for example, between
the European proletariat and the capitalists, but there where war has
become the embodiment of contradiction and thereby shows that it is
fundamental. For example Vietnam.
Except for the name of the country being attacked, it was like a debate
on this list made into a movie.
There was, of course, a rather pointed political message in this
exchange about whether socialism/capitalism or imperialism/the third
world is the fundamental contradiction. When the movie was made in 1968
no one would have missed it. And some of us have still not forgotten it.
Joaquín
On Fri Jun 17 9:01 AM, Marce Cameron wrote:
<http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2141060852444135470>.
The scene begins 59 minutes, 19 seconds into the movie.
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