socialism

“Socialism” octopus by Louis Wain, circa 1902. Many thanks to Jack Graham for providing a rather unusual political cartoon.

“What the Socialist Prime Minister aims at by his Referenda scheme.”Brisbane Courier, Friday May 23rd 1913 p4. Octopus with the head of Andrew Fisher. Cartoon was published about a week prior to the general election on May 31 in which the newly renamed Labor party lost by one seat. The “Referenda scheme” refers to the […]

“contra el fascismo y el un frente unico” (against fascism and a united front). Lot of symbology: octopus holding barrel of oil and, corn cob. Hands holding: tools, books, sickle. Similar imagery to the SOA Watch Skulltopus, in the people versus the monster state/corporations. FPR is the Frente Popular Revolucionario Image source: FPR ’Galeria De Carteles’ […]

How Communism Works (~1938 ) Source: http://wpscms.pearsoncmg.com/wps/media/objects/1693/1733989/images/img_w066.html

Les Monopoles (Carrère, P. ~1919, Published by: Chachoin for Union des interets economiques) The return of the red pieuvre: l’Etat monopole (state monopolies) or Etatiste (statist). I have included “l’Etat Monopole” beneath “Les Monopoles” to compare the two. Both with the red octopus, most of the figures are represented in both, they are, essential the same image. “LES MONOPOLES […]

Stemt Rood! (Hahn, 1918) The Art Nouveau poster shows the creepy green Kapatalisme (capitalism) octopus with its arms: hongershood (famine), oorlogsleed (war, suffering), anarchie (anarchy) and levensmiddelenwoeker (food usury?)1 . The octopus is under attack from a worker with a pickaxe. The octopus is associated with a burning city and skulls, as opposed to the untouched […]