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This short play (32pgs) by Italian marxist Dario Fo is a satiric take on the role that clothes play in a capitalist, classist society. It makes the point that the respect and deference that is shown to people who simply wear certain types of clothes is an absurd and illogical situation, just another reason why capitalism needs to be smashed! Fo also points out the vast difference in attitude that the police will adopt in regard to someone dressed like a worker, and someone who has on a suit, even if it is a worker in a suit or a rich man in workers' clothes! So clothes are correctly shown to be socially significant items which are used to help classify people, and keep people in their places, and for some (i.e. the rich), as a significant protection. And this is shown in just about every underground revolutionary movement you could read about: the workers, peasants or petit-bourgeois activists will often have to travel undetected and unhindered, and to do so they will dress like the rich, and most often this will protect them from harassment, thus using capitalism's sick classifying to the benefit of the revolution. Enjoy comrades:

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One Was Nude and One Wore Tails - Dario Fo.pdf