MIM Movie Review

This is an archive of the former website of the Maoist Internationalist Movement, which was run by the now defunct Maoist Internationalist Party - Amerika. The MIM now consists of many independent cells, many of which have their own indendendent organs both online and off. MIM(Prisons) serves these documents as a service to and reference for the anti-imperialist movement worldwide.

The Matrix
1999

A Hollywood film of tremendous value -- a great gift to the 
revolutionary movement on par with that of  Reds  
politically and done artistically as well as can be with 
special effects. Humyn-beings both dead and alive are 
tended by machines in gigantic mechanical farms where they 
are used as batteries for the various kinds of heat and 
electricity that they produce. Not only does the script- 
writer uphold materialism as the existence of an external 
world independent of the subject (humyn mind), but also the 
script-writer shows us how science will conquer and make 
everything knowable including dreams. There are a few 
drawbacks to this film, but on the whole, MIM could not 
have asked for more in a two and a half hour Hollywood 
movie. We can use the movie to educate people about 
dialectics, modes of production, Lenin's book "Materialism 
and Empirio-Criticism" and the drawbacks of anarchism and 
individualism.