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...sooner did Mozambique gain independence last June, however, than the new republic required everyone to join "dynamization groups" and bone up on Marxism. When the Witnesses balked, they were forced back to Malawi. There they have steadfastly refused to buy 34? cards that would make them members of Banda's Congress Party. The penalty: loss of homes and jobs. Hundreds of Witnesses are dying of starvation or disease. Young party thugs are also subjecting them to renewed violence. Awake!, the Witnesses' semimonthly U.S. newspaper, says that Malawi's "record reeks of beastliness, of insensibility to any standards...
There are also a great many political asides, all having to do with the various and inclusive insanities of Marxism, capitalism and fascism. All are denounced, while liberation through mad ness is stoutly championed. Sweet Movie, full of unenlightened lunacy, is not really a film at all. It is a social disease...
...CONVERSION TO MARXISM: No one needed to tell me of the futility of the things that I had been doing; I just know that I began to feel a kind of conviction and in a strange way a kind of peace. A kind of: O.K. now, I know where I'm going. All kinds of things came back to me in the course of this. I remember one time someone in a speech or something said that if General Motors decided today that discrimination was bad for business, tomorrow there would be no discrimination. I thought that...
David Smith, a 23-year-old student in the California state system, doesn't continue in a novelistic way: the rest of his book is a small compendium of useful statistics, theories and occasionally tiresome abstract Marxism, most of it gleaned from the already bursting radical literature on education. And the book succeeds, despite its sacrifice of artistry for detached analysis, if only because Smith sets up the essential drama in his first chapters: the contrast between the former products of university education, the regents--Ivy Leaguers from a Scott Fitzgerald nightmare--and the present student proletariat, which must shape...
...schools. In America and Western Europe, students have always been prospective independent professionals: doctors, lawyers, professors, and engineers. All that ended with the consolidation of bureaucratic capitalism. Smith's analysis is shallow in predicting future revolutionary class consciousness among educated workers--his mistake stems, again, from his too-mechanistic Marxism...