Communism does not appear in the documentary at all. It spends far more time on their esthetics. To be a member of the black panthers you had to read 12 books, six of which were on or about mause dong. They were very much anti imperialists. And they did delegations to to a cuba an north career,. But i was watching it sort of wondring whe they'd fit into this kind of elegical current.