Soccer Dog – A Maoist perspective

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Soccer Dog was a 1999 in which a man who misses his soccer days so adopts an orphan in order to play the sport with him. After he brings the orphan home, the man learns that the orphan isn't interested in soccer. His new son (Clay) finds a stray dog and tries to hide it in his bedroom. Clay's father thinks that Clay is not feeling welcome, so he comes into Clay's bedroom to find he was hiding a dog. In the middle of the soccer season, Clay's dog, Lincoln, plays for the team when a team member gets hurt. Lincoln scores a goal minutes afterwards. At the end of the season, the team wins the championship. Lincoln's original owners take their dog back, but Clay gets a puppy at the end.

It looks to me like harmless entertainment that children will enjoy but then I am not a Maoist. Acording to the Maoist International Movement (MIM) In their view:

“ it was inevitable that we would start seeing more and more movies about pets taking on humyn roles. In "Soccer Dog," a dog plays soccer for a boy's team in middle Amerika and promptly proves to be most valuable player. The obsessed coaches, Mafia dad, profiteering trinket sellers and a whole town mad about sports as long as its team wins is all reality TV on Amerika.Nonetheless, this film is crass trash exploiting people for their love of family and pets. It does nothing but express and reinforce the contentment of the Amerikan petty-bourgeoisie focused on family, pets and suburban life.”

So there you have it. If you believe the Maoists then youyou were reinforcing bourgeois Amerikkkkkkkkkkkkkkan (sorry I should have stopped at just three ks) $tereotypes by showing them this film. Personally , I think the Maoists should stop idolising one of history’s worst butchers and do something a little more productive like getting laid!

The Powerpuff Girls: A Maoist Perspective

The Maoist Internationalist Movement (MIM) is a collection (A collection? IT IS THE COLLECTION, revisionist scum!) of existing or emerging Maoist internationalist parties, mainly in the English speaking world but also in Francophone nations as well as Puerto Rico and Aztlan (those bits of Mexico ceded to the USA in the 19^th Century to you and me) .

Predictably, MIM upholds the revolutionary communist ideology of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and is an internationalist organization that works from the vantage point of the Third World proletariat. It struggles to end the oppression of all groups over other groups; classes, genders, nations. MIM knows this is only possible by building public opinion to seize power through armed struggle. Finally, Revolution is a reality for the United States as the military becomes over-extended in the government's attempts to maintain world hegemony (Yawns) Well you get the message. Just don't forget that the USA should always be described as the United $nakes of Amerikkka in Maoist speak.

Not only is MIM is concerned with high issues of Maxrist-Leniinst ideology it also does its level best to ensure that then Lnternational Proletaruat are given the best advice and guidance on the best films to watch

Rotten Tomatoes gives the Powerpuff Girls Movie a 67% rating and contains quotes such as "How can anyone resist a cartoon in which the arch enemy of three crime-fighting schoolkids is a monkey called Mojo Jojo?" and "Almost as much fun for grown-ups as it undoubtedly will be for kids"

MIM on the other hand says this this:

The Powerpuff Girls are the latest of superhero comic strip characters. They are three little girls with superpowers that enable them to fly, build things quickly and fight of course. A mutant monkey decides that simians have lived under humyn (sic) rule too long and uses the Powerpuff Girls to build power for his simian mutant creations. In the end, the Powerpuff Girls kill off hundreds of mutant monkeys, gorillas and apes to win victory.

No doubt these are forceful female characters for young children to imbibe. In that sense, "Powerpuff Girls" may contribute to gender equality within society as it exists. On the other hand, society as it exists seems quick to come up with reasons why massive violence is a good thing.

Like Batman and Spiderman the Powerpuff Girls also fight crime in a one-on-one way. Although it would be no problem for the Powerpuff Girls to build homes for all the homeless and organize food production for the hungry--because we've seen their speed in building crazy mutant monkey bases and laboratories-- they still prefer to fight the relatively minor violence of crime one case at a time instead of resolving its roots or eliminating much larger sources of violence.

In conclusion, the Powerpuff Girls are a reactionary, pseudo-feminist enterprise.

So there you have it! I have never seen the Powerpuff Girls - I don't routinely watch cartoons made for children (or I haven't since I was a kid myself - Okay I admit it... I used to enjoy Rocko's Modern Life!). I know MIM are a ridiculous little pipsqueak faction. That said, the only Great Leap Forward I would like to see these idiots at MIM make is one into reality.