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.

While this film makes sharp criticisms of the anti-people 
medical system, the solution it portrays is not only non-
revolutionary, it's confused and easily misunderstood. 
Patch Adams is a not good doctor because he uses humor 
(as the film implies), but because he tries to connect 
with his patients and concretely apply his technical 
training. Humor is a means to an end, not an end in itself. 
What is important is that medicine, like all skills, be 
used in a way that serves the interests and needs of the 
people.