RE: [Marxism] Woody Allen Speaks His Mind on Bush (The Front)

["Jack Cade" <jack.cade@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

        I thought this was quite a good film. I especially remember Zero
Mostel, essentially playing himself. This must be one of the least shown
Woody Allen films. McCarthyism is never satisfactorily explained. It is easy
to see why Stalin needed the trials. But why did the USA need that? The
CPUSA was never very influential or likely to be yet we had the strongest
military and economic power in the capitalist world indulging in one of the
most notorious, paranoid, self-destructive times known.

        There is also the matter of the pervasiveness of religious
fundamentalism in the USA, which as Chomsky has remarked is 'off the scale'
for a first world country. No one seems to be able to satisfactorily explain
this either (and it is related to McCarthyism too).

Jack C.

The Front
Woody Allen plays a man of no real talent or strong
political convictions who is paid to be a front for a group
of black listed writers during the McCarthy period in the United States
(early 1950s). There are comedic elements in his attempts to pass off
stories he hasn't read as his own, until he comes under the view of the
UnAmerican Activities Subcommittee. Summary written by John Vogel 
{jvogel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx}




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