Make Mine Freedom (1948)
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November 21st, 2009 at 2:48 pm
Great cartoon. Probably, will make the pro-commies cringe. One might call this a candy coated view of America or capitalism and maybe that’s true but it’s a hell of a lot less candy coated then the view the commies give of their worker’s utopia. I work with a guy from Vietnam. He was recently telling me what it was like growing up under their wondrous Marxist regime. He compared it to “1984.” In school you had to learn to parrot Soviet, Marxist slogans, those who could do it best rose through the ranks of what was essentially a puppet regime of the U.S.S.R. At a certain point these people would be sent to Russia, where they would remain, receiving a full party education, sometimes for as long as 20 years. Then they would return, speaking with Russian accents, extolling the virtues of the great Marxist Utopia and, according to my friend, their was something “different” about them as if something had been changed in their head. People who question things were frequently accused of being C.I.A and arrested. Western media was blacked out. Pro-Soviet propaganda films, were endlessly shown in theaters. The government controlled every facet of people’s lives.
I’m a conspiracy theorist, so odds are I could list far more problems with capitalism and western governments (and even western “anti-communism”) then many of the mainstream western left, but I’d take all our awful problems any day before accepting a Communist nightmare. At least in a democratic country we can speak out against our evil over lords. Sadly it’s starting to look like we’re in for the worst elements of both capitalism and communism, merging into one big monster, as has already happened in “Red” China. But, until then, “make mine freedom!”
November 22nd, 2009 at 8:04 pm
This cartoon - or many just like it - was used for propagandistic purposes as well, akin to “Marxist slogans” in communist schools, etc. It was, after all, from 1948, at the start of the Cold War. The little kiddies were probably shown these reels in class, right along with their nuclear-war-”duck and cover” drills.
But I’m with you: capitalist propaganda is much more palatable than the agitprop that others in communist countries were subjected to.
November 22nd, 2009 at 8:15 pm
FYI: There’s something weird about the stats on this vid. Apparently, a staggering amount of embeds were achieved by a site called NationalJuggernaut. From Sept. till now, at nationaljuggernaut.blogspot.com, this vid was viewed 1,428,957 times!!!!!. Never heard of the site, and its Page Rank rank status at Google is zero (ten being the highest). On the face of it, it doesn’t make sense.
November 23rd, 2009 at 2:36 am
Weird. I don’t know enough about internet, etc, to comment on that but I do see how that’s strange to say the least.
I get how this is propaganda too and I have many problems with our system but I’m just sickened how controversial it is (at least in a lot of the circles that I run in; academia, the arts, etc) to decry Communism at all. The moment you do people will list all the evils of capitalism, nationalism, religion, etc, as if that some how washed Communism clean of the tens of millions of human lives, it exterminated over the course of the last century. Of course, I think we’re pretty much on the same page here anyway so I don’t know why I’m still yammering.
Any theories as to how this video’s hit count could be that high?
December 8th, 2010 at 11:19 am
Wow, history repeats itself. Except this time it will be the Tea Party throwing the bottles, and Obama, Pelosi, Reid and the Commie Dems who will be doing the running!