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...their content, these films are conceived as instruments of struggle against the bourgeoisie and revisionism, against imperialism and social imperialism, with the theoretical help of marxist-leninism and the thought of mao. But there is also at stake something new, something previously unheard of in cinema, and in this new content, we cannot be satisfied with a worn-out form. These films also struggle, ideologically, against the passivity of the spectator, as Brecht struggled in his time: because this passivity is not an aesthetic necessity as some people would have us believe (a spectator is always a spectator...
...qualify as bourgeois garbage. In the aftermath of May, Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin formed the Dziga-Vertov group, a revolutionary film collective (that for a long time had just those two members). Their early work consisted of a series of quasi-documentary polemics (Pravda, See You at Mao, Struggles in Italy) that managed to alienate most of the critics who had made Godard's reputation in the middle sixties...
...then able to delineate one's own political biases by hypothesizing these biases, using the neutral analytic tools in a certain way to render a given conclusion or, if ingenious enough, by creating new analytic tools. It is no accident that the Cambridge-educated economist Joan Robinson aids Mao in his economic theories for the Chinese economy; or that Marxist historian Christopher Hill is Master of Balliol College, Oxford. They have mastered their respective fields--and superbly express their political biases in the context of their respective disciplines. It is imperative for blacks to attempt to do the same...
Hovering in the twilight of life at the age of 79, Mao Tse-tung seems to be becoming ever more Confucian. Recent pictures of him receiving visitors in his book-lined study indicate that he spends much of of his time there, and he gave visiting Japanese Premier Tanaka several volumes of Confucianist commentaries on Ch'u poetry (the historical state of Ch'u is Mao's birthplace). China watchers believe that they have seen signs of Mao's beginning to turn inward, to reflect on himself in the light of Confucian philosophy. From a Confucian...
...already have it) that these are dog-days for poets everywhere. It may be indicative of the times that Allen Ginsberg gets top billing at the Quincy House Arts Festival and Rod McKuen can actually be paid (by the editors of Saturday Review) to ask with owl seriousness whether Mao Tse-Tung is really a poet. But the lapses of an uncritical audience aren't the same as the problems of young poets because (as the writers about poetry in the Advocate keep suggesting) young poets don't seem to know what to do with themselves or how they would...