Propaganda from the outside looks like a pretty cushy gig, working up the masses with simplistic slogans has never been too hard, let’s face it. Consequently, this blog has featured its fair share of it. Some of my favourites include:
- The impressive North Korean campaign to defeat imperialist wolves through a superior swimming technique.
- Rose cheeked children wish East Germany all the best.
- The cheeky “I’ll let you do filthy, disgusting things to me if you risk your life for the nation”.
- Chipper’s “it must suck to be a JAP kid!”
- The loneliest communist in the United States lives in Mississippi.
- Failing to resist the temptation of the pleasuring of the self will bring about the rumination of a young man.
- Why are we fighting? For a lamb in a bow with a laurel wreath on its head and a flower tucked behind its ear, of course!
On first glance I expected this to be the work of pesky anarchists, but then I realised that this is covered with the names of socialist unions: Unión General de Trabajadores (UGT), Partido Socialista Unificada (PSU); and there is no sign of the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the key anarchist group. Yet their colours – the red and black – are there for all to see. That and the rather sad imagery tell me that the work of anarchists is afoot!
Now, of course you want to lionise sacrifice and mobilise the punters to the point that they’re willing to pick up a rifle and risk their necks for the cause. I guess guilt is a good lever to do that, but how many timid Nigels out there are you going to scare off with this message? The dude has a hole in his head! It’s not exactly encouraging.
Besides, what’s this guy got to be stroppy about? The dude got shot in the head! ”I got shot in the head you prick! What have you done?”
“Err... I haven’t been shot in the head...?” (and all the while in your head, you’re like, “dude, you’re not really selling it to me...”).
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