Why a Mongolian monument to Vladimir Lenin was briefly a pool hall in the 2000s
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Communist
The anti-communist, anti-capitalist satirical collages of hobo artist Ion Bârlădeanu
Romanian artist Ion Bârlădeanu was making collages for twenty years before the art world got hip to his work in 2007. Suddenly Bârlădeanu was supposed…
The communist art of René Mederos, Cuban propagandist for Vietnamese revolution
“Como en Viet Nam,” ca. 1970 Retrospectives on communist art and design are often dominated by some pretty inaccessible (and sometimes downright godawful) aesthetics. For…
Creepy anti-communist propaganda from Bohn Aluminum and Brass Corporation, 1952
Bohn Aluminum and Brass Corporation is most famous in the design crowd for its futuristic advertising campaigns–absolutely gorgeous (and totally campy) illustrations of all the…
Berlin youth hostel decorated entirely with Communist stuff
Liking stuff is perilous and fraught with moral implications. For example, if one expresses a fondness for an artistic or design movement created under a…
Get some culture, you bourgeois ingrates! (With some revolutionary Chinese communist ballet, 1971)
Efforts to create a new, post-capitalist artistic culture are fraught with peril. First of all, the tendency to dismiss pre-socialist traditions (artistic or otherwise) as…
Communist auto worker beautifully explains capitalism & racism in the Detroit auto plants, 1970
The League of Revolutionary Black Workers The video below is an excerpt from the 1970 documentary, Finally Got the News. The film tells the story…
Theocrat evangelist wants to keep God’s ‘diabetes cure’ all to himself (and Chinese Communist party)
On the Trinity Broadcasting Network’s Praise the Lord program, kooky “Seven Mountains Dominionist” evangelist Lance Wallnau claimed that Christians—and ONLY Christians—will soon have “technology that…