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I see people talking about that Fred Hampton movie like it was deliberately designed to draw people into Hampton’s politics. Do folks really not get how corporations and their class interests work? Do folks have no idea who is making and distributing these movies?
...And if anybody wants to ask “why would they want to make the movie in the first place then?” Because if they don’t make movies about this stuff, then independent creators will have a serious chance to fill the void created by our demand...
...If folks were interested in Fred Hampton and Black power and corporations refused to make these films, then you’d see low budget productions being distributed through community channels and folks would be discussing this legacy outside of corporate control. Which is dangerous.
...Paying lip service to radicalism lets them control the discussion and obscures the fundamental, absolute, unbridgeable chasm between the world Hampton was murdered for trying to create, and the current system of racial domination and capitalist production his murder protected.
...Imagine if in order to see a movie about Fred Hampton, you had to engage folks trying to continue his legacy in some thrown together community theater where folks had frank discussions and enlisted each other in the work of liberation. Imagine art as the bridge to praxis...
...This is the world corporations are trying to stave off by reducing radicalism to an aesthetic and elevating consumerism into pseudo-revolution.
