Manifestoon (1986) by Jessie Drew - The Communist Manifesto illustrated by Cartoons

Manifestoon (1986) by Jessie Drew - The Communist Manifesto illustrated by Cartoons. This is an homage to the latent subversiveness of cartoons. Though U.S. cartoons are usually thought of as conveyors of capitalist ideologies of consumerism and individualism, Drew observes: "Somehow as an avid childhood fan of cartoons, these ideas were secondary to a more important lesson—that of the 'trickster' nature of many characters as they mocked, outwitted and defeated their more powerful adversaries. In the classic cartoon, brute strength and heavy artillery are no match for wit and humor, and justice always prevails. For me, it was natural to link my own childhood concept of subversion with an established, more articulate version [Marx and Engels' Communist Manifesto]. Mickey running over the globe has new meaning in today's mediascape, in which Disney controls one of the largest concentrations of media."

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[KateReadsBooks]

Did you make this? If so, can I put it in a film festival?

[MikeNobodyIsBack]

I did not.

The original poster, I believe, had his account suspended.

But, considering it's all content from Karl Marx and various animation sources, I don't see how he could complain.

[orangedac]

Crony capitalism where losses of bankers are offloaded onto the backs of society and where the fraud of paper money is enforced on people to enrich those bankers is a racket.

Maybe Marx was right. Capitalism eventually degenerates into cronyism.

[somewhathumanlike]

That's markets. Capitalism means a system of property and business organization in which the economy is run by a capitalist class. Markets existed before capitalism.

[MrLoneWanderer820]

LMAO

[MrLoneWanderer820]

lol

"you have to get behind someone, before you can stab them in the back"

[notmack]

I was referring to their ability to crack down on dissent. Such behavior is a hallmark of modern communist practices. I believe that communism, being ultimately impossible to maintain indefinitely, will become highly authoritarian with time. Coincidentally, fascist societies do the same, so while both societies are philosophically different, the end result is highly similar to one another

[EyeLean5280]

What do you mean by that? Are you claiming the means of production and the distribution of wealth are in the hands of the Chinese state, rather than private corporations? If that is your claim, can you point to current examples?

If you are referring only to the authoritarian, police-state nature of Chinese government control, that is not in itself communism. Closed societies can and have existed under many forms of government and within various economic climates.

[notmack]

You're partially right, they maintain some of the trappings of communist social controls

[EyeLean5280]

China is no longer a communist country.

[EyeLean5280]

Superillusiveman, you need to do a bit more studying there, friend. Actually, quite a bit.

(And I imagine once you do, you won't need to go around speaking arrogantly to people anymore.)

[whatslifespurpose]

In capitalism the mode of production lies in the hands of capitalist and the motive for the same is profit. period. What we saw in the USSR was not communism but some kind of state capitalism with some principles of socialism. Communism is a classless, godless, stateless, moneyless (and I would add genderless) society. It is the epitome. We started with slavery, then feudalism, then capitalism, then socialism and finally will move to communism.