Disclaimer: this is NOT a political message… if I would want to make one, I would be far more direct and explicit… this is a simple play with semantics. I intend to use art as an expression of political views, but not at this time, nor this venue. I lived in a communist regime for more than 30 years, so I know it inside out… yet, have no hate, nor regrets, just understanding of my journey as a free man in a not-so-free-world… but then again, who’s to say what freedom is… until you don’t have it… / /
I’m more for Groucho than Karl. /
Mao rockin a new pair of Rafters
Communist Party of Russia former emblem
Riot Gear
Aerosol on canvas, 2008 / Stencil artwork inspired by Chinese propaganda and canned sardines.
Little Ms Communism
Don’t talk too much, russian poster of communism fear. During the Russian Revolution a movement was initiated to put all arts to service of the dictatorship of the proletariat. In search of new forms of expression, the Proletkult organisation was highly eclectic in its art forms. In practice it meant that artists had to produce works glorifying the leaders and policies of the Soviet Union. Art effectively became a form of propaganda.Posters and paintings works in Style later known as Socialist Realism sympathetic to the communist government include partisans, hammers,sicle, stars and industrial or agricultural landscapes were popular subjects, glorifying the achievements of the Soviet economy.Artists who could not work within the boundaries of Socialist Realism were send to the labor camps. Artists who chose to paint in alternative styles had to do so completely in private and were never able to exhibit or sell their work. (wikipedia.org)
From the Chinese (naval?) propaganda during the chairman’s reign.
The five-pointed red star, a pentagram without the inner pentagon, is a symbol of communism as well as broader socialism in general. It is sometimes understood to represent the five fingers of the worker’s hand, as well as the five continents. A lesser known suggestion is that the five points on the star were intended to represent the five social groups that would lead Russia to communism: the youth, the military, the industrial labourers, the agricultural workers or peasantry, and the intelligentsia. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels used the red star as a symbol. It was also one of the emblems, symbols, and signals representing the Soviet Union under the rule and guidance of the Communist Party, along with the hammer and sickle. The star has since become a symbol representing socialism of all varieties.
After the Chinese People’s Liberation Army’s poster. The lower text is translated from the original Chinese. Obviously, that on the Little Red Book is not =) This is not a cut-and-paste, as you’ll see when you zoom in.
Propaganda to go…big fricken deal just be apathetic or stop buying crap made in China or boycott the Olympics, yeah like you have the bucks for the trip and the pocket money to slap the bucks out for the Chinese food to go in like China (?)....Get a grip these commie bastards have your rice bowl in their hands just like King Dubya Debacle George Bush and his gang has your butt up on the barbecue with the sheiks of Araby…”Made in China” is Yankee dollars and Brit pounds via Big Business Global global bullshit…little people paint on by the numbers artist farting around…”Boycott China” check out your paint by the numbers or your software programs…check out your underwear or the shoes you wear…”Made in China” you made it happen here and everywhere don’t blame America or China you cheap ass bastards and bitches jerks you are so cheap just like sheep…save a dollar or euros and super size your paint box….Made in China is you!!!! Your rice bowl is their rice bowl no take out….please boycott China and see what you can’t buy…ha ha not much!!! / Meanwhile save the seals, save the polar bears save the animals and ignore the human beings….human being rights so fricken human ignore reality….oh why not…looking in the mirror is like…”looking at you kid.” Laugh your fricken ass off who cares….boycott China…and eat Chinese food to go. / Boycotts work they take time but in a super size it disposable world of mass thoughtless consumption will the vacuum cleaner mentality sucking up and sucking on cheap goods think not to buy “Made in China” ? How much “Made in China” do you own? / The Olympics have come and gone…Tibet still struggles…a global recession looms…what next?....free elections in China and unification for the Koreans…George W. Bush apologizes to the world…consumers stop consuming? Who knows one thing is for sure China is getting ready to make its big move….take out anyone? The Dalai Lama has said today March 10, 2009 that “the middle way has failed.” And human rights is a none issue and “not made in China.” See more stuff at: hinkiepinkie
Karl Heinrich Marx (May 5, 1818 – March 14, 1883) was a 19th century philosopher, political economist, and revolutionary. His approach is indicated by the opening line of the Communist Manifesto (1848). Marx believed that capitalism, like previous socioeconomic systems, will produce internal tensions which will lead to its destruction. Marx devoted himself to an intensive study of history and elaborated on his idea of historical materialism. Marx traced the history of the various modes of production and predicted the collapse of the present one—industrial capitalism—and its replacement by communism.(wikipedia.org)
The hammer and sickle is a part of communist symbolism and its usage indicates an association with Communism, Communist Party, or Communist state. It features a hammer superimposed on a sickle, or vice versa. The two tools are symbols of the industrial proletariat and the peasantry; placing them together symbolises the unity between industrial and agricultural workers. / It is best known from having been incorporated into the red flag of the Soviet Union, along with the Red Star. It has also been used in other flags and emblems.( wikipedia.org)
Mao rockin his new OBEY Flatpeak
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A cyclist passes by one of the remaining parts of the Berlin Wall. Viewed from the former East German side. Featured in Gorgeous Germany in February 2009. I have put together a calendar of graffiti that I found in Melbourne, Australia. It can be found by clicking on the following link: The Berlin Wall (Berliner Mauer) was a physical barrier separating West Berlin from the German Democratic Republic (GDR) (East Germany), including East Berlin. The longer inner German border demarcated the border between East and West Germany. Both borders came to symbolize the Iron Curtain between Western and Eastern Europe. The wall separated East Germany from West Germany for more than a quarter-century, from the day construction began on August 13, 1961 until the Wall was opened on November 9, 1989. During this period, at least 136 people were confirmed killed trying to cross the Wall into West Berlin, according to official figures. However, some victims’ groups claim that more than 200 people were killed trying to flee from East to West Berlin. The East German government issued shooting orders to border guards dealing with defectors; such orders are not the same as shoot to kill orders which GDR officials denied ever issuing. When the East German government announced on November 9, 1989, after several weeks of civil unrest, that all GDR citizens could visit West Germany and West Berlin, crowds of East Germans climbed onto and crossed the wall, joined by West Germans on the other side in a celebratory atmosphere. Over the next few weeks, parts of the wall were chipped away by a euphoric public and by souvenir hunters; industrial equipment was later used to remove almost all of the rest of it. The fall of the Berlin Wall paved the way for German reunification, which was formally concluded on October 3, 1990.
Holy crapola da bomb dictator is still rock’n and roll’n in North Korea…one of the axis of evil boogieman on former President King George W. Bush’s hit list. Dubya got old Saddam Hussein and it cost over a trillion dollars…money well spent…Dubya destroyed Iraq and the United States of America just for the hell of it no doubt Dubya is a frustrated artist too…nothing like Republican logic…”Iraq Iran away from Afghanistan.” Kim Jong il aka Kimmijol aka Norm Koreah is in your extended space and still building that bomb…2000 to 2008 it never happened ask any Republican if they can get the teabag out of their mouths…they can’t even twitter. / Dude and Dudettes Norm Koreah is a frustrated artist…and…artist have massive egos…you never know when an artist might just explode with a new art movement…like Norm’s bombastic improvisational one time conceptual art of paranoia paint by the numbers…Norm is an old school Stalin art commie…opiate art for the masses…join the revolution.
Communist parties today may or may not formally use the term communist in their name. Even if they do, not all follow a strict interpretation of any of the main ‘schools’ of communism ( Leninism, Stalinism or Trotskyism). The original Communist Parties first started after the creation of the Communist International by the Russian Bolsheviks. Communist parties have held power in 21 nations throughout history, first and most notably in the Soviet Union. The first international Marxist organization was called the Communist League, advocates of the principles put forth in Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels Communist Manifesto.Trotskyism and several other branches of self-proclaimed revolutionary Marxist-based thought contend that, under the influence of Stalinism, the Soviet-influenced Communist Parties drifted far away from the original.On Stalin’s order, the Communist International was dissolved in 1943.
Rise up against all that. Whatever it is …
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