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...dialectical analysis, through linking facts and context. Except in a few direct interviews Solanas maintains a tension between images and sounds such that comprehension develops along parallel and contradictory lines of struggling ideas. The gestaltist impulse to force correspondences produces irony and consequently a sense of the film's materialist superstructure...
...Materialist Cinema: It is the duty of the cinematic revolutionary to illuminate, develop, and demystify the daily contradictions that make the revolution-a hope, an option, a necessity, a reality-in the minds of the oppressed. He must never neglect the all-important relation between analysis and praxis, nor ever satisfy himself with the egoistic transformation of polities into Art-the exploitation of revolutionary struggle in the production of an "aesthetic" whole. It is not enough to attack the decadence of the bourgeoisie, to make commodities of their sexual and psychic aberrations, because all "finished products" can be easily digested...
...saved only by concerted radical action directed at all portions of our exploited environment-the cities, the poverty, the wars, the hatred-that condemns us to lives of desperation. If the ecology movement can survive the strong pressures to emasculate its thrust, it can strike at the fragile materialist cooptation underpinning our wasteful industrial society. Otherwise, ecology as an issue will become a tool of the enemy...
...could he? Fascism, despair, hysteria, exploitation, economic anguish, war and the threat of war-all those things that Marx had taught him would herald the destruction of capitalism were all about him. What fell from Chambers, as he explained, was not merely Communism but "the whole web of the materialist modern mind-the luminous shroud which it has spun about the spirit of man, paralyzing in the name of rationalism the instinct of his soul for God, denying in the name of knowledge the reality of the soul...
...simplify what, and how? At the very moment when the U.S. is beginning to question its old materialist certainties, it is also facing urgent new demands for a better society -which can hardly begin to be financed without enormous continued material growth. Nothing is quite so expensive as idealism; that paradox may well shape the politics of the 1970s...