when pro-capitalists claim the state is a hindrance and not an indispensable tool for capitalists, show them this movie.
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The Working Class Goes to Heaven 1971
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
'Workers, look after the machine you've been entrusted with the utmost love and care'.
There are several reasons why this movie is a cornerstone of politically committed cinema of the 70s, both positively and negatively. The greatest merit of Petri's movie is to portray with acute and brutal realism the workers' condition in the factories; their subjugation, the piece-work dependent salary as well as their prison-like daily routines. '' Is this even living?'', asks the student proletariat. Clearly not, concludes…
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