alexei_1917

I don't know in what context Bugs Bunny would dress up as Stalin, but hot DAMN, even a bunny looks good stealing Stalin's look.

Yeah... on the one hand, the dragons are a little more creative than drawing China as a panda bear. On the other hand, the panda bear always looks cuddly and detracts from the meaning of the propaganda and I think that's an incredibly funny juxtaposition.

They're trying to counteract previous mistakes of drawing China as a panda bear, which... the Soviet Bear thing worked because you can draw a grizzly bear that looks scary (although I find most Soviet Bear junk to look hug shaped anyway), the panda allowed for good Sino-Soviet jokes, but they eventually figured out that it's very difficult to draw a panda bear that doesn't look hug shaped and adorable, so they started drawing China as a dragon instead... which only serves to make China look badass. Though I do miss the cuddly panda bears.

That would be amazing and I'd love it.

Except that it'd never exist, because it could only be real workplace nightmares and real union organising under capitalism, but it would never be filmed or aired in a capitalist country. The USSR absolutely would have been willing to make something like that back in the day, but the necessary class contradictions, and unionising as the only means of recourse, simply weren't present.

Marx explains why it happens. Lenin tells you what to do about it.

This is one of the most succinct explanations of how Lenin builds on Marx, that I've read in a while. Nicely put, comrade.

I love that some of the modern McCarthyists are so bad, that when they call someone a communist who actually is a socialist of some description, no one takes them seriously.

but try to propose naming something after Stalin.

Not that we would, of course. He'd turn in his grave at modern communists doing that. He hated cult of personality nonsense directed at himself just as much as Lenin did. He didn't want the people to erect statues of him and name stuff after him.

But yeah, the double standard is ridiculous.

I wish a "Stalinist" party would take power in the US. Maybe then the sins of that guilty land could finally begin to be purged. Maybe then the US would actually do some good for the world. Maybe they could actually spread Freedom and Democracy by supporting other communist revolutions. Instead of just saying they're Spreading Democracy as an excuse to bomb civilians in countries 90% of their population can't point to on a map.

I mean, I catch myself falling for Soviet nostalgia crap that ends up in the West a lot, despite having been born long after the dissolution, but like, the Western left as a whole has a Soviet obsession and Eastern Bloc nostalgia problem. Lot of Western communists who didn't live through the Cold War but miss it anyway, along with those who did live through it and miss when just being a communist was in and of itself revolutionary and dangerous and Doing Something. People who love Soviet aesthetics and still want Red Dawn to actually happen, instead of having to lead a local revolution and take local culture and material conditions into account.

So, this might not work that well in the actual former Warsaw Pact... but it sure as hell works in countries that were on the other side of the Cold War.

That is... Very strange. But also not that surprising. Lot of Russian "past power and glory" nostalgia relies on the Orthodox church and tsarism just as much as it relies on Stalin era USSR or post Great Patriotic War Soviet nationalism.

Thanks for the rec!

Ooh, looks good, can't wait to sink my teeth into some of this, thanks comrade!