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...pivotal character, Vittorio, is a millionaire running on the democratic socialist ticket. A moderate, pinned between his Maoist brother and his conservative sister; his campaign for an education post is a dolorous exercise. But the conflict is set only superficially in political terms. Bellocchio wrote that the film was conceived in a geometric pattern, on parallel lines. The film's structure emphasizes the interconnections between layers rather than their contribution to an overall theme. The politicial layer lies nearest the surface, but it is little more than a hand-puppet to the film's sexual politics. It is oddly believable...
...young Maoists are mostly former farm workers from the south, embittered by city life, frustrated by assembly-line routine, and easy prey for student provocateurs, whose rallying cry is "Worker power!" Standing far to the left of Italy's established Communist Party, the mavericks spurn alliances with traditional unions, and have as their avowed aim the toppling of capitalism. While they ardently admire the Peking government, their name comes not from an official link with Red China but from their rough tactics and revolutionary chants, which resemble those once used by Chairman Mao's Red Guards. The Maoist...
...seemed less secure than ever. And he was not the only one to suffer. The disturbances pointed up a serious ideological split between Habash's extreme leftist outfit and Arafat's bigger, more moderate Fatah. To make matters worse, the twelve biggest fedayeen groups range from Maoist to moderate in their political views; unless they can achieve something more than paper unity, their quarrels will surely bring more violence to the Middle East. Last week, for example, observers in Amman insisted that they had seen guerrilla groups shooting at one another...
...their profits back into the movement. Then there are "windfalls," like the one at San Francisco State College last year, when radicals seized control of the student-activities fund, amounting to more than $400,000, and parceled out large sums to black militants and an organization that was blatantly Maoist...
Despite the improved political outlook, there is growing concern over the activities of the left-wing Mouvement Militant Mauricien, a Maoist group headed by Paul Berenger, 25, son of a well-to-do middle-class Franco-Mauritian family...