The Communist Manifesto illustrated by Cartoons

The Communist Manifesto illustrated by carttons. 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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[thatkindofguy234]

@mauiportal nope, I'm not a jew. If were going to make assumptions, heres mine : Ignorant prejudice conspiracy theory nut.

[mauiportal]

@thatkindofguy234 jew?

[thatkindofguy234]

@mauiportal Yeah... it's all the jews fault! If you're rich, your a jew! LOL...does that not sound familiar?

[thatkindofguy234]

@mauiportal haha, have you been listening to alex jones or something? go read some more conspiracy theories. I suppose Lenin was also a secret CIA agent and Stalin was the head of the illuminati? HAHA the USA is like the USSR? GTFO please... before you make youself look even more retarded.

[mauiportal]

@thatkindofguy234 Hitler was an anti-capitalist, just as he was an anti-capitalist, just as he was anti-Jewish, because I Jewish banks created both capitalism and communism. Therefore he privatized the banks, and Germany went from a deep depression to the most prosperous country in the world in less than 11 years. The Jewish banks declared war on Germany, just as they recently declared war on Iraq for the same thing. And of course now they've declared war on Iran for the very same reason.

[mauiportal]

Communism/Socialism is a sad and unfortunate joke that still very much plagues the world today and hasn't gone away. In 1913 the Rothschilds created the Federal Reserve in the United States, founding members of the Federal Reserve then financed the 1917 Bolshevik revolution. The Federal Reserve and the Rothschilds always controlled the Soviet Union. And if anyone looks around today at the United States, it looks very much like the old Soviet Union. The government now owns all property

[migkillertwo]

...the magnitude of these recurring recessions, and then they revolt.

[migkillertwo]

...actually much closer to the Neo-Keynesian view of recessions. There's too much of one good, not enough of another, and this causes industries in the over-supplied industry to collapse and put thousands of people out of work. Industries then move into the under-supplied industry, but eventually too many industries move into that undersupplied industry where it becomes oversupplied, and even more people are left out of work. These crises continue until the proletariat can no longer take...

[migkillertwo]

I guess as a presentation of Marxism, there's not much to disagree with here, but his presentation of the marxian crises of overproduction are very wrong-headed and, I think, lead to a misinterpretation of Lenin's imperialism.

Marx's views were not that there is a chronic lack of demand for the goods manufactured by industry (too many goods made, not enough wages paid to the proletariat to actually buy those goods) which necessitates the occupation of foreign lands. His views were...

[TheHolySTD]

@nalejbank "Coercion and force are the hallmarks of collectivism"

No Coercion and force are the hallmarks of living in a group, the rules the group has develop for the efficient functioning of its self we call norms, and refusal to follow this norms will be met with reprimands or expulsion, you follow this norms as the group allows you to more easily meet your baser needs like sustenance and security, by this you are made more free as you have more time for other things.