Has anyone mentioned Paul Schrader's Blue Collar, where Richard Pryor, Yaphet Kotto and Harvey Keitel knock over their own union's safe? Still one of the most explicitly Marxist films ever made by a Hollywood studio,it still stands up today, even in the classroom. The final voiceover, by the now-dead Kotto, states the Marxist insight about how the bourgeoisie pit the young against the old, and the black against the white, to make us forget that it is us against them.
It also levels a withering critique of unionism and union politics.
Dan
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