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A revelation of the darker side to Walt Disney's character looking at his racist, anti-Semitic, misogynist tendencies which finally led to a pathological hatred of communists and an active particpation in McCarthy's House Committee on Un-American Activities.

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[WhiteFlowerLei76]

He brought that strike on himself, if he had shown respect to his workers and treated them well it never would have come to that.

[Jrge666]

wow, i just can't imagine how Dumbo would have turned out if the strike hadden't happened.

[LunaSeaSane]

@GyvonJ I am not excusing the man.

The idea alone that skin color could ever affect your level of comfort, is hillarious.

Same as assuming "nazi' whenever you spot someone with a shaved head, wearing army slacks . But that we can change now. Because it is happening now.

People can take advantage of people in all sorts of ways. not just laboral, color or gender based.

Just having people firmly decide to no longer take advantage of people, is a great beginning.

[GyvonJ]

@LunaSeaSane But he did know better! To take advantage of your workers and tell people you don't want dark skinned people and such, shows that you know a lot of 'better' than other do!

[31operafan]

The person who said something that pissed Walt off so much during the strike was Art Babbit who, from what I have read, hated Walt with a passion. I understand you shouldn't say things like Babbit did to your bosses, and I understand how angry Walt was, but Babbit sympathized with those who felt they were being treated unfairly.

[disneyfan85]

This probably would never have happened had it not been for World War II. That was the main reason why "Pinocchio" and "Fantasia" did not quite turn a profit on initial release. Because the war had obliterated a good portion of the European market, which helped drive the successes of Mickey Mouse and "Snow White".

[LunaSeaSane]

And all of this is unthinkable,

To anyone whose idea of succes involves themselves as royalty in the glory of their self-made empire.

And none of this is a direct attack on Disney because he represents the past (a time when they didn't know nay better). But none of these theories involve hiring the mob to rough you up a notch and pop some "sense" in your head, when you disagree with the top cat.

[LunaSeaSane]

03:49 THE LENINIST THEORY OF COMMUNISM

Leninists revised this theory by introducing the notion of a vanguard party to lead the proletarian revolution and to hold all political power after the revolution, "in the name of the workers" and with worker participation, in a transitional stage between capitalism and socialism.

[LunaSeaSane]

03:22 THE MARXIST THEORY OF COMMUNISM

In Marxist theory, communism is a specific stage of historical development that inevitably emerges from the development of the productive forces that leads to a superabundance of material wealth, allowing for distribution based on need and social relations based on freely associated individuals. Marxist theory contends that socialism is just a transitional stage on the road to communism.

[LunaSeaSane]

02:44 COMMUNISM

A social, political and economic movement that aims at the establishment of a classless and stateless communist society structured upon common ownership of the means of production. This ideology significantly influenced the history of the 20th century, which saw intense rivalry between:

- The "socialist world" (communist states);

- And the "capitalist world" (countries with market economies and democratic forms of government).

[NotOrdinaryInGames]

This should never be taken down.