Mrax's dialectical materialism is a theory that gives a rough outline of history, giving general stages to which it may fit. Growth, change, and development take place through a naturally occurring struggle of opposites, a process that individuals cannot influence. He uses this philosophy to explain that only matter exists, so that the existence of the mind, social institutions, etc., must be explained in material terms. That change occu

rs when opposing forces, thesis and antithesis, lead to the production of higher forces, synthesis, according to dialectical laws. This can specifically relate to the film and also life in the United states at the time. The thesis, or prevailing status quo, is the black hatred groups in Mississippi. The thesis, oppositon to the status quo, is those who spoke out against the injustices to blacks, Medgar Evers. And the antithesis, new social order becomes new thesis, was in 1994 when the Byron Beckwith was retried and found guilty of the murder of Medgar Evers.

This documentary gave insight to the time period of the late 1950's until the mid 1990's, showing a semi-evolution of how far the racialism, the degree to which people are conscious of distinctive characteristics of people on the basis of race, in this country has come and what struggles it overcame to get into this not-even-close-to-utopia that Martin Luther King Jr. spoke of

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