Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 10:51:01 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: Looking on the bright side


Hugh Rodwell wrote:

> OK, so it's good old no-holds-barred British satire darting its poisoned
> barbs at master and slave alike in a repressive, colonialist society racked
> with insoluble contradictions. Petty-bourgeois, leave-me-out-of-this
> despair. Irony has always been the weapon of the weak (it turns into
> sarcasm in the hands of the powerful).

I think Lenin once said that a sense of irony was an essential requirement
for revolutionaries.

As for Monty Python, there's a lot of *very funny* stuff which even the
most constipated Marxist should be able to laugh at. The scene from _The
Meaning of Life" where thousands of little kids dressed in Edwardian
attire singing and dancing (beautifully choreographed) the song "Every
Sperm Is Sacred" was precious!

Jerry

> PS Why don't we make Monty Python the Honorary Presidium of this forum?

PS: I'd rather have Lisa as moderator.



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