In the movie Selma directed by (name), tells the story about Martin Luther King Jr and the journey from conflicts of interest to boycotts leading to the violent walk to Montgomery. Risking lives and freedom just for the ability for people of color to vote. Keep in mind that voting for everyone is the constitution but down south their deliberately breaking the law because of the disapproval or someone’s skin color. Going through so much pain just to get the presidents attention to sign the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which would be one of the most significant victories for the civil rights movement that forever would alter history a slow change but a change for sure. Throughout the movie you see a lot of Marx’s theory from estranged …show more content…
The drive to stop one race from succeeding or climbing the ladder joining prestige classes complicates Marxs theory. In Selma there was a scene where the cops were chasing a family into a store beat them, degraded them, and murdered the son all because of their participation to vote. A thing they the people have to work for it’s their estranged labor. It complicates Marx theory because of the estrangement. One race having intolerable power against people of color so they cannot achieve a revolution is the reason it doesn’t render with the great mass of humanity (Tucker 1978). Not being able to do something with political power in your territory always trying to hold you back from peaking over. Physically assaulting and mental haunting the minority group and treat them less in equal how is one supposed to grow. At every chance to superiority you do all that you can in attempts of achieve such glory to be on the same pedestal. That is just one of many ways that it complicates Marx Theory with all that I mentioned about the race and ethnicity and the problems that is within each of those categories. The way people are treated and plotted against those actions stop us from being a better workers in in society. In my opinion I would try to change that outcomes of what occurs. I would be able to have the ability to eliminate class hierarchies and create …show more content…
Through demonstration many scenes in this movie proves the theory of class to be deem inadequate due to the fact that theirs no way out when faced with oppression. Another thing this movie connects with Marxs theory is estranged labor through alienation of the workers, the workers would be people of color and what they are working for is the right to vote. That alone shows you how flawed out Marxs theories are. I say that only because this is based on a real life event that still pesters the world