It's easy to see why even the local London press playe and line acting" ils vitality' The descriptions COO• nUMOUr were quite accurate But lo assess its importance for a Marxist understanding of art, we at it in the context of une german Maris Daywront Which are the clearest expression of a Marxist CUM shows how a group of women dunary workers Intouch. ine emeroence Pars commune in These unorganised circo awour. Fue oids snows me cracuar cevelooment or ineir oolthrough Commune is that it can be treated ao a mice story arcnives ot ine bast Those women laundry workers really had nothing to lose but their starving [it was a time when cats anc dous were on me menu arine more salubrious restaurants]. for us the problems of consciousness complicated television, the ideology of social democracy and so on nowever. Monstrous Rediment succeed in showing how similar problems existed then.
how uneven and contradictory the consciousness of even une mos aware workers can be Two of the laundry workers illustrate this particularly well:
sne steals from the worker, and nas a grudging tond ness for her petit-bourgeois employer, Mme Massor From the militant to the intel lectual, LUCY. Ine averais class woman in the laundry. she But They demMole is OnY macle Ter sne taus in love win nim Lucy is also mocked by the others who convinces them of the need to run me launar oy workers contol. ov explaining the theory of surplus as it is reflected in the laundry's accounts in a Decilan dav mne sucienc.
and thoughtful;
soothed by the dream of escaping live TATC chonar one. ocum is brechtiar In unis sense: by addressing the the actresses remind us from time to time that week.
is interrupted by songs and rusic, and mey are consistentiv sean as a crouo or women - there silent are no special heroines to identify The solidarity that has developed between these women through. out the plav IS snown at the barricades to be a necessity. It is that solidarity them to face death, to defend the gains of the commune.
They reassure each other and isoire each oiner Inis is thi moment when we win or lose. Our chance to fight for what we want 25,000 communards died in one An audience which rippled with laucnter nroucnout the tiret hai of the play had become absolutely SCUM is the nearest approxi mation to minkine teelinos ant feeling thoughtfully | have countered in merely illustrate theory -VICE versa. DU luses me two. civine cue weion to the exploration of emotional life as part of a theory of socialisi Al present monstrous Keaimen are touring with SCUM and anothThey'll be in the Stoke February, in Esses on 30 ane Maren and in te East Midlands on 14 March. From
revolution'. (Lines 1091-3). SOVIETS