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A brief and crucial history of the United States
We are more than pleased to introduce our audience to the important work of Lanny Cotler and Paul Edwards, two revolutionary audiovisual artists who simply excel at communicating the truths and ideas usually negated by the capitalist propaganda machine. Using a technique which reminds us of Ken Burns' classic documentary The Civil War, the team has produced a series that, in its didactic power, can effectively guide would-be activists in future struggles. If you ever dreamed of seeing Howard Zinn's People's History on the screen, wait no more because this series by ClassWarFilms brings that much to the table and then some. This video, Let Your Life Be a Friction to Stop the Machine, is the foundational piece in the collection.
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Good movie, but there is hope even in Hollywood productions. To name only two, ‘Modern Times’ by Charlie Chaplin which clearly shows how we are caught in the machine, doing the same thing on the Taylor band repeatedly and unconsciously till it becomes a habit after ‘work’ in adjusting the buttons on a woman’s dress. And the fine under-rated radical movie of ‘The Wizard of Oz’, whereby the protagonists understand that they have a heart and a brain and courage after they have been told that they have none. And the old wizard is but a small old man blowing smoke. When the public will understand that they have a heart, courage and a brain, they will follow the golden road to the lairs of old men blowing smoke and push them aside and out of the way. Those are the messages which show our bondage and possible liberation by gaining an insight into what is being done to us and the world (our victims need no such explanation or enlightenment). Sleepwalking and self-hypnosis which are the main traits of Capitalist dominance are very hard to break, but the slow attrition of false consciousness through ever tightening oppression will surely break through this fog of delusion and Stockholm syndrome submission.