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.

   Independence Day (1996)

   What should the international proletariat do when space aliens
   attacking earth with the intent of killing all humans? ID4,
   doesn't say, but once the principal contradiction shifts from
   imperialism-vs.-oppressed nations to Humanity-vs.-Space Aliens, a
   lot of old enemies work together against the new enemy. Of course,
   Hollywood makes the Amerikans the smart ones who have to lead
   the fight. After the aliens are defeated, the oppressed may have
   a revolutionary opportunity amid all the destruction. Still, MIM
   asks, "who wrote this?" For now, aliens are cultural creations,
   and therefore class creations. If this was a movie written with
   proletarian politics, advanced aliens would more likely be communists,
   not evil imperialists. Or in a different as yet unwritten revolutionary
   alien movie, the proletariat unites with the space aliens behind the
   bourgeoisie's back. Then, at the crucial moment, the bourgeoisie
   realize they have been outflanked by the combined forces of the
   space aliens and the proletariat. Then, the aliens and what's left
   of humanity peacefully coexist.