By Jack Barnes
Development the type of celebration operating humans have to arrange for coming category battles in which they'll revolutionize themselves, their unions, and all society. A instruction manual for these looking the line towards potent motion to overturn the exploitative procedure of capitalism and take part reconstructing the area on new, socialist foundations.
Preface through Mary-Alice Waters, 24-page photograph part, notes, index. Now with enlarged type.
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Casting aside his aversion to organized political activity, Chaplin joined with Hollywood Communists such as Lillian Hellman and Donald Ogden Stewart, and progressives such as Groucho Marx, in lending his name to the Authors’ League for Sinclair. 49 More willing to speak out publicly, he nevertheless saved his sharpest pronouncements for the medium he knew best. The actor-director-writer shifted his cinematic attacks from the local scene to the national and, finally, THE FIRST POLITICAL MOVIE STAR • 33 to the international.
And the Communist mother is the same as any other mother. When she receives the tragic news that her sons will not return, she weeps as other mothers weep. I don’t have to be a Communist to know that. 64 Chaplin had caught speech fever. Five days later, he was the featured speaker at a Russian war relief rally in Los Angeles. In the coming months, he spoke at pro-Russian gatherings in several cities. That July, he gave a fourteen-minute speech calling for a second front that was broadcast via radio to a mass meeting of 60,000 trade unionists and their allies at Madison Square Garden.
Chaplin found Berlin equally ravaged by war. ”33 Charlie left Europe on October 18 with mixed feelings. He was pleased at being welcomed into the world of intellectual elites but unnerved by what he saw. “If I could only do something,” he wrote in his memoir. ” But he was only an actor. What could he do? Chaplin returned home more willing to endorse radical ideas and organizations. 34 THE FIRST POLITICAL MOVIE STAR • 27 Although the star’s political awareness continued to evolve over the decade, he still preferred private conversations to public pronouncements, for such venues never put him at financial risk.
