Elia Kazan and ultra-purism

Peter Kilander peterk at enteract.com
Mon Mar 22 18:21:20 PST 1999



>I finally saw Bulworth the other night. It's kind of goofy in places, but
>there is a lot of radical stuff there. Warren rapping about socialism to a
>bunch of ruling class stiffs was an amazing sight. Leo Panitch is convinced
>that Julie Christie made him a Marxist of some sort.
>
>Doug

I saw it just the other night too, and was relatively blown away. Especially, the part about Insurance companys skimming something like 25% or so profits off of health care, whereas the gov. could do it for around 4% overhead - I'm not sure if those are the exact numbers he said. His silver bullet seemed to be miscegenation seeing as how the ruling class pits groups against one another. It can't hurt, but what about good old-fashioned revolution?

Peter - not afraid to seem militanter-than-thou or even (gasp) purist, especially after knocking back a few. By the way, Christopher Hitchens is scheduled to appear on HBO on Dennis Miller this Friday, March 26. The topic is skepticism. Maybe he'll toss out the dirty word "socialism" as Beatty did. According to Feed magazine: "[Hitchens'] Comedy Central gig ended after he announced, during a live broadcast, that the Reagan's were 'a pretty fucking weird family.'" I bet he swears once or twice.



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