"Between capitalist and communist society there lies the period of the revolutionary transformation of the one into the other." ~ Karl MarxThis past week I saw a variation of the Swoosh Che image in my current edition of Communication Arts. The image is amusing because Che has become a symbol of the struggle against capitalistic exploitation. The Nike sponsorship implies that he's sold out.
Upon seeing the image this week in my current edition of Communication Arts, the image of Karl Marx in a Ronald McDonald clown suit came to mind. With the nationalizing of our banking system and other sweeping reforms being bandied about these days, I couldn't help picturing Mr. Marx removing his clown face and muttering, to no one in particular, "It's about time."
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To see more works by the illustrator Edel Rodriguez, here's a good starting point. For more original works by the illustrator who did Karl McMarx, just keep coming back to this blogspot. I'll do my best to make it worth your while. To enjoy Mr. McMarx more fully, click image to enlarge.
The huge corporations in the Western world aren't government-owned, but they are government protected.
ReplyDeleteWhat happens if a huge corporation sells a few million pounds of contaminated beef? Nothing much. It's recalled, reprocessed, put into canned beef products, and resold.
What would happen if an individual farmer advertised to try to sell even 50 pounds of clean meat out of his house? He'd be shut down immediately. They'd probably destroy the meat, besides, and not even allow it to be fed to dogs.
In the USSR, the communist state took over the private farms, and turned them into "collectives". In the USA, the corporations (and the corrections industry) have done basically the same thing, with the full backing of the government.