One of the Most Evil and Insidious Movies Ever Made
Tortilla Flat is one of the most evil and insidious movies ever made. The screenplay was drafted from John Steinbeck’s acclaimed novel. The subversive film is an unabashed celebration of anti-bourgeois or “underclass values” and behaviors such as improvidence, hedonism, purposelessness, promiscuity, immediate self-gratification of needs or wants, and capricious spontaneity or irresponsibility. The central theme of the movie is a relentless attack or denigration of property, how property ownership corrupts and destroys one’s soul. Property ownership, stable employment in productive work, marriage, punctuality, thrift, foresight, deferred self-gratification of needs or wants, and self-discipline are the destructive middle class values under constant assault. This is one of Spenser Tracy’s greatest roles as Pilon, the seductive manipulator of everyone he meets for his own nefarious, greedy and selfish ends. He is o
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Donation match: Will you meet my challenge for People’s World? February 19, 2021 1:46 PM CDT By Tim Wheeler
Retired People s World editor in chief Tim Wheeler distributing copies of the Daily World at an event in the 1980s. Now he s issued a challenge to PW readers and supporters. | People s World Archives
Dear readers,
I recently posted on social media Marilyn Bechtel’s story in
Bechtel’s article was the first I read about this hugely significant step by President Joe Biden reversing former President Trump’s attempt to wreck the New START treaty. The people’s victory Nov. 3 is a step toward saving humanity from nuclear catastrophe.
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‘Faith in the Masses’: Communist Party history gives something to believe in February 17, 2021 11:42 AM CDT By Michael Berkowitz
The new book Faith in the Masses includes a range of topical and biographical essays from across the Communist Party USA s first century.
Faith in the Masses: Essays Celebrating 100 Years of the Communist Party, USA, edited by Tony Pecinovsky, is an ambitious undertaking almost as ambitious as the work the book describes. These essays cast a wide net aiming to capture the breadth of the Party’s efforts to change society over the last century. The celebration is heartfelt, reverent at times, hyper-romantic at others, and decidedly not uncritical.
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Disney fired Gina Carano.
The internets blew up. Screams of cancel culture and comparisons to the Hollywood Blacklist emerged in abundance.
I have no opinion on her firing. I do, however, have a strong opinion about comparing her firing to the Hollywood Blacklist. It’s wrong, for so many reasons. So please stop doing it.
Let’s explore this comparison with five key points:
Carano was fired, not boycotted. The Hollywood Blacklist was a group boycott. Anyone on that list was believed to be a member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) or a leftist group with intent to overthrow the government. The House Unamerican Activities Committee (HUAC), the precursor to McCarthyism, called witnesses to discover how deeply Hollywood, academia, and other industries were entrenched with communists. Refusal to testify for any reason put you on the Blacklist. If someone named you, you were put on the Blacklist. Any hint of sympathy for the CPUSA put you on
Portrait of Bill Davis at CPUSA headquarters in New York, 2007; oil on canvas. | Yevgeniy Fiks
Bill Davis, a long-time trade union and peace activist and Communist Party USA leader, died Jan. 23 in New York while in hospice with COVID-19. He was 78 years old.
Davis was a caseworker for the New York City Department of Welfare (later Social Services) and a fixture in the trade union movement. As an AFSCME Local 371 member, he was elected shop steward to the local’s Executive Committee, one of the local’s delegates to the NYC Central Labor Council, and an active retiree.
Bill Davis