Comrades! Much strife has arisen over the newly published film document "Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith." Many of you say it is a decadent document without substance and without a place in the socialist state; in fact, merely an instrument of capitalist oppression. I submit to the committee this materialistic-dialectic critique in favor of this film document, arguing that it is out of necessity that it has had to mask its deepest intentions to better serve the socialist revolution!

I ask you: has not comrade Buñuel spoken well of the hypnotic effects of film? Have not comrades Eisenstein and Kuleshov breached the front for film as enlightening the proletariate? What better way to enlighten the oppressed in the capitalist countries than through a neo-post-constructivist film work employing the newest dialectical weapon of our class struggle, that is: Marxist dream analysis?

By applying this strictly materialistic technique, a comrade director can communicate with a proletariate audience without capitalist oppressors detecting any single offensive point which may excuse censoring the film document. But, largely due to the historical necessity of the socialist state, proletariate audiences can comprehend and be enlightened by the deeper message of a socialist director. Many Marxist dream symbols are in fact hidden in plain sight, as I will show is the case for this film document.

The "Jedi order" obviously represents a committee of labor unions which tries to change the capitalist system ("the republic") from within. The films "Star Wars episode 1-3" is the story of how they fail — an excellent argument for the futility of attempting such an act while rejecting the doctrine of armed revolution. While the episodes 4-6 were obviously an account of the final defeat of capitalism and the dawn of the dictatorship of the proletariat, the prequels, and especially this third installment, gives an account of the fallacies which may befall socialist leaders in our modern world.

The first film roll is obviously an historical retrospective of the violence inherent in the capitalist system. We see many brave front-line fighters give their lives to protect comrades union leader Obi-Wan and second secretary Anakin while they fight their way to save one capitalist leader from another — at this point, the characters have not accepted the major thesis of this film work: that its inherent flaws prevents capitalism from being changed within, that fighting among capitalists is irrelevant compared to the greater issue of class struggle. This highly effective manifesto is planted in the viewer already at this point, when comrade Anakin hesitates to execute a capitalist at the orders of another; his distaste is the distaste of the proletariat, their feeling for the materialistic truth.

Before soon, we observe further flaws in comrade Anakin's character, when he confuses working for the people's labor committee with a capitalist class title or "status" situation. But as we shall see, it is his rejection of armed revolution which will ultimately lead to his downfall. This is foreshadowed by his disturbing dreams, which are filmed as through a prism: the prism in this case represents the traitorous ideology distorting his perception!

After his inevitable ideological defeat at the hands of union leader Obi-Wan, he is then forced to retreat into the black ideological framework of capitalist oppression, as symbolized by the "Darth Vader" costume. Therein, he is forced to rely on the surplus value of the oppressed classes even to assist his breathing. It is here clear that the increased strength of his telekinesis represents the global outreach of capitalist exploitation in the modern world.

At this point, some may complain at the nonideological, apparently bourgeois-romantic portrayal of the birth of Luke and Leia. However, a more materialistic illustration of materialist-dialectical philosophy can hardly be conceived, when comrade Anakin begets his antithesis, Luke, by male-female synthesis with the borgeouise "Padme"; she, in turn, is her own antithesis and so a synthesis in herself. (As we remember, she is a covert class-traitor of the privileged, going so far as toiling with her servants.)

And so, when attempts to change the capitalist system have finally failed due to ideological error, the remaining leaders of the people must go into hiding to enable the true socialist revolution at a future point, all this because of rejecting the doctrine of armed revolution. It's unclear at this point what "speaking to the dead" entails; this may be a convoluted metaphor for proper interpretation of Marxist-Leninist manifestos.

In conclusion, I hope this has demonstrated to the committee the usefulness of Marxist dream analysis applied to the creation and reading of film documents, and the granting of greater honor to comrade Lucas for undermining the capitalist states through creating film documents that can slip through the cracks in the censorship offices of the capitalist regimes to such a degree it can even be massively "merchandised."

— proceedings of 23e seminarny film,
Propfilm Gattinform Korova
Comrade Bevgi speaking