"Poetry and film are both socialist art"

Jarvis 2022-09-14 00:39:43

"To sort out the speculations about leftist thought and revolutionary philosophy in some of the films, I personally disagree with most of them, but I find it interesting and can reflect the background of the times."


The revolution can be carried out peacefully, and there is such a possibility, but the socialist revolution will not. We have to face the reality, now you have wrong thinking, where is the correct thinking? It comes from practice, and then what? from the class struggle. Class replacement has formed history. This is the history of civilization for thousands of years. In his speech at the All-Russian Congress, Lenin believed that class struggle still exists, but in different ways. This is an example. Abandon illusions, prepare for war, work is also war, you must seek truth from facts, what are the facts? All things that exist objectively have various internal connections. We must proceed from the status quo, act with principles, and explore internal connections from surrounding events.


In the past century of art history, the development of art itself has formed history. Language is not burying us, our society is being buried. Poetry and film are socialist arts, everyone has betrayed at one point, Trotsky betrayed two months after occupying the Winter Palace, and joined the imperialists. Art is non-renewable, but the effects of beauty are imagined. Imagination is not a reflection of reality, but a reflection of reality. Content and form should be the same, more so should the content of revolution and politics, and art and form should be exactly the same. The lack of artistic works, even if the political progress is powerless, to retain our feelings.


A revolution is an uprising, a violent act by which one class overthrows another.


There are many places in the current university that are not good. Education is very important. Of course, it is a big problem. It must be changed from scratch. First of all, block universities like China. If you can't block universities, you will block yourself. Everything has class issues, and workers want to add up. Blockade universities, use bombs, as long as someone dies, no one dares to go to school.


All to reflect, summer is over, a new semester begins, and the struggle begins again. Wrong thinking is the Great Leap Forward, a big step in the Long March.

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  • Francis: But your idea?

    Veronique: To close universities.

    Francis: But how?

    Veronique: With bombs.

    Francis: With bombs? Are you going to... Are you going to throw bombs?

    Veronique: Listen, when one starts killing students and teachers, they won't show up, and so the universities will close.

    Francis: But tell me are you doing it alone?

    Veronique: Well, there are two or three of us.

    Francis: Two or three, but...

    Veronique: But for example you during the Algerian War when Djamila Bouhired blew up cafes, you were there, you defended her when Marshal Juin and then those L'Express guys were against her.

    Francis: Uh-huh.

    Veronique: All of France was against her except for you.

    Francis: Yes, that's right. But there is a difference, and tell me if I'm wrong.

    Veronique: What difference? Please explain?

    Francis: Because there was a whole people behind Djamila. There were men and women who had already entered the struggle...

    Veronique: But it was for...

    Francis: Pardon?

    Veronique: It was for indipendence, and me too, I want my independence.

    Francis: You want your independence, but how many of you want it that way? I asked you, and you said two or three.

    Veronique: Precisely. There are many who don't think about it yet. So we think for them now. It's for them.

    Francis: Do you think you can make a revolution for others?

    Veronique: But Francis, you agree that work is struggle?

    Francis: Of course it's struggle, but what is the struggle?

    Veronique: Look, if I want to know the theory and methods of revolution, I'm obliged to participate practically in a revolution.

    Francis: You can participate in a revolution but not invent one.

    Veronique: Look, if I want to gain knowledge, you have to go through practice, right?

    Francis: Yes.

    Veronique: Do you agree?

    Francis: Yes, I agree, but revolutionary practice nevertheless presumes knowledge of the situation. Do you know?

    Veronique: Yes, I know the situation. Everything is wrong.

    Francis: You know it, but do you know...

    Veronique: And it makes itself known to... to...

    Francis: Do you know what can be done to remedy it?

    Veronique: But you do agree that all genuine knowledge originates in direct experience?

    Francis: When you believe in direct experience, does it tell you what content to give to your action next? Because terrorism, it's only the beginning of action. It's terrorism, isn't it?

    Veronique: Yes, it's terrorism.

  • Henri: The silence of the infinite space. It's not the silence that scares me, it's the sound and the fury.