Those around in the 1960s, will recall that communist propaganda was all about peace, freedom, and brotherhood among people of all nations. This is a propaganda poster from 1962 by Nina Vatolina.
The text reads, “Peace, Labour, Freedom, Equality, Brotherhood, Happiness”. Arise, comrades, victims of imperialism, oppression, and capitalist wage slavery, throw off your masters, and you can have the same peace, freedom, and happiness as citizens of the Soviet Union!
Well, that attempt ended badly, but that doesn’t mean the slavers gave up. They’ve just updated the graphics, put the democidal dictators behind the curtain (for the moment), put a high tech gloss on everything, but for the most part they haven’t even bothered to change the slogans or the appeal to “youth” ignorant of history and never given the opportunity to learn to think things through to their consequences. The goal remains the same: a global slave state run by a technocratic oligarchy “for the benefit of” proletarian subjects who, without the means of independent support, ability to freely communicate and organise, and deprived of the tools of self defence and/or rebellion, are at the mercy of the organs of the state.
Marx, Lenin, and Trotsky all believed the socialist revolution would have to be on a global scale to be sustainable. When the Great War and its aftermath failed to produce the predicted revolutions in Europe, Stalin and Bukharin developed the doctrine of “socialism in one country”, which remained Soviet policy until the collapse of the Soviet Union. Although the Soviets were willing to promote or exploit revolutions around the world, they ceased to expect spontaneous revolution in developed countries.
That didn’t work out so well, so now we’re back to the original “world communism” idea, re-branded as “sustainable”, “equitable”, “diverse”, and “inclusive”.
Same poison, new package.
