Without a doubt, "Dirty Dancing" is one of the most popular films ever among a primarily female audience. But this success is based on a misconception. Even if female viewers hang languidly in front of the TV on girls' night out, only very few of them have really understood the radical nature of the film. For all its popularity, "Dirty Dancing" is at the same time a completely underestimated left-wing film whose class-struggle message has lost none of its topicality.

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