[lbo-talk] "Ruling Class" as Agent?????

[Carrol Cox]

I saw it about 60 years ago &remember it only vaguely. Is that the film that
shows the torture of a priest, as well as a group of partisans run  down in
rice paddy or swamp? Those are two of the scenes I remember. Oh yes, a
mother stopping a u.s. army truck and screaming about the rape of her
daughter???

Pretty vague in my mind. 

Carrol

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At 07:13 PM 12/15/2010, Doug Henwood wrote:


>If they think everything is fucked and hopeless, and there's not 
>much of an alternative on offer, why should they risk anything for 
>no imaginable payoff? Who's going to go first? Just do your best to 
>get by. It's a system that encourages cynical resignation. I feel it 
>myself about 40 times a day.

Last night I watched Rosselini's Rome Open City.  Great movie, 
especially if you watch some of the extra stuff that comes with the 
Criterion edition.  There you get interesting background like 
Rosselini (and Fellini) one day working with Mussolini's son on 
"Fascist Triology" propaganda films and the next working on Rome Open 
City even before the city was liberated.

It occurred to me watching it that maybe one reason some on the left 
in the U.S. are always quick to find fascism lurking 'round corners 
is that in a resistance situation like that portrayed in Rosselini's 
film things (what is to be done) look so clear.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iePrL22RVFQ

  http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/italians/resources/Amiciprize/1996/fascist 
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/italians/resources/Amiciprize/1996/fascistfilms.ht
ml 

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