Louis Proyect wrote: > > Another take on this movie: > > http://www.alternet.org/movies/81161/
Last Friday I heard one of the leaders of IVAW speak, and among other things he mentioned their counter-recruitment efforts as well as the effect on some stroops of stop-lost or repeated tours of duty. During the question period afterwards two people in the audience in effect repeated the argument of this review in the process of more or less accusing the speaker of "glorifying the military." It's the mistake of confusing agitation and propaganda. This movie is good propaganda for war; it is good agitation for anti-war IF THERE IS AN ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT. No movie -- ANY GODDAMNED MOVIE -- will ever work as either agitation or propaganda in the absence of a mass movement to incorporate it. And with a mass movement, even The Green Berets can be red propaganda. CArrol _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
