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...worsening economy of Germany in the late '20s. The racist and nationalist propaganda of the Front recall all too readily Hitler's anti-semitism, his genocide of the 'inferior' Slavic population, and his plans for a Greater Germany. The Front's plans for the state control of capitalist industry are cruelly reminiscent of the German state machine which provided concentration camps of cheap labor to a regulated German industry...
Tyndall is a firm believer in the work ethic, in competition and in production for profit. In terms of social and economic policy, this philosophy translates itself into social irresponsibility and regulated capitalist industry. Tyndall professes a doctrine of social obligation only for the physically incapacitated. For all other victims of structural unemployment or poverty, Tyndall allows only "the stiff breeze of compulsion to work, and hardship if they...
Economically, the Front advocates as did the Nazis, a program for national self-sufficiency. They propose to ban all imported goods, and to grow 75 per cent of Britain's foodstuffs in Britain. Like their Nazi predecessors, they also advocate a state-controlled, monopoly capitalist economy...
...rise of the Front. But the fundamental problem of an economic failure and its disastrous human consequences will remain. The reversal of this economic failure, and of its dehumanizing consequences remains the real problem for Britain. Ultimately, it will only be resolved through the supersession of the cyclical capitalist economy, which recurrently exposes society to economic breakdown, and concurrently exposes it to the fascist threat...
American Buffalo is a baffling play, and not a very good one, either. If Mamet meant to sketch the mean materialism inspired among the lower fringes of a capitalist society, he could have succeeded. But his play stretches for some deeper meaning, and in reaching for that goal topples over, incomplete. It's a shame to waste three fine performances on such a strange play. But the general strength of the production, if not of the play itself, is encouraging, and it is good to see an energetic young professional company set up shop in Cambridge...