Using the Judas casting in their communism last supper painting to divine someone’s tendency
I like the idea of this picture, but I think that the problem is that many people level criticisms to communism as a religious-like school of thought, and I think this fuels that narrative, that we are dogmatic and preaching it to others, I don’t think that is a good way even for us to see ourselves, as preachers of the truth, we are people who ought to be among the proletariat and offer support so we all collectively rise together, and is only engaged with the people among the people that we cant put our thesis to the test, and improve Marxism, we do not preach we act.
Sure I get it but jokes mean stuff and can shape some ways of thinking specially to newer members people still learning, so I like to be on the cautionary side and leave my two cents here.
I love lemmygrad because we have the stupid memes seasoned with straight unfun reasoning.
Just to acknowledge the fun, not removing it, but also highlighting the possible issues.
It doesnt even have to be a joke and we can lean into it completely seriously without having to justify ourselves. I disagree with the premsises comrade bear puts forward. Pasolini managed to straddle this line perfectly well as a communist.
Jesus was a revolutionary, remember; he freed his people from slavery. He didnt implement communism afterwards, of course; but we can see him for the progressive he actually was removed from the mythos of him. Thats Pasolini’s point, and I think its a good one to internalize as it allows us to communicate on better ground with less radical religous people.
Trotsky as Judas?
Communism is when no food. Only books
The artist (Liu Chang Chun) has a few of these:
Who is the guy in the hat to the right of Kim? It looks like he’s in all of these but I have no idea who he is.
I think it’s Nicolae Ceaușescu, the leader of the Socialist Republic of Romania
Does he have an Instagram or a Twitter account or a website or anywhere where I could see more of his art?
