Posted on 08/24/2017 6:28:40 AM PDT by ETL
Revolution #145, October 19, 2008
An Unofficial Guide to the Exhibit
Take the 68th Street subway exit on the Upper East Side of Manhattan and walk over to Park Avenue. Two blocks north, on the street divider in the middle of four lanes of heavy traffic, a 10-foot-high steel sculpture of a Mao jacket greets you. Then on the building to the right is a big banner with a drawing of Mao Tsetung surrounded by images of workers, soldiers and youth marching with red flags, Red Books and rifles. This is the outside introduction to a new exhibit at the Asia Society Museum titled: “Art and China’s Revolution.”
In the next couple of months, tens of thousands of drivers will zoom past the huge Mao jacket, prompting many to do a double take. It will jog some people’s memories back to the ’60s when millions of people around the world, including here in the United States, looked to socialist China as a truly liberating society. For some it might bring to mind Andy Warhol’s pop-art image of Mao, which you occasionally still see on t-shirts and greeting cards.
After being bombarded by decades of being told that “communism is dead,” most people who drive or walk by will probably consider these artistic references as icons of “the failure of socialism.” But for those who actually go through the revolving glass doors of the museum and see the exhibit, this can be an opportunity to examine and think more about what Mao and the Cultural Revolution and socialism are really all about—and to look at, and reconsider, the “accepted wisdom” on the effect this historic struggle had on art and artists; and in turn, the role art and artists played in this historic struggle. ..."
Much more at link below.
http://revcom.us/a/145/art_revolution_china-en.html
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Same organization (RevCom.us) put out this regarding the recent controversies...
Keep in mind as you're reading that Mao Zedong murdered many millions more people than did the National Socialist/Nazi Hitler regime, by a factor of at least three.
May 17, 2017 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us
Around 100 racists rallied in Charlottesville, Virginia, on the night of Saturday, May 13. They railed against the city’s plans to remove a statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee—who led a war to defend and expand the enslavement of Black people—from a public park. The crowd carried torches that evoked a KKK lynch mob, and chanted “We [white people] will not be replaced” and “Blood and Soil” (a slogan from the Nazi German regime that carried out the genocidal slaughter of six million Jews and millions of other people in the mid-20th century). ..."
http://revcom.us/a/491/take-down-the-confederate-monuments-en.html
Great info., ETL. A lot to digest.
Don’t sell Kim and Pol short. Mao is tops because he was in charge of a much more populous country. I have no doubt given the opportunity his fellow travellers would have matched his body count.
BUMP-TO-THE-TOP!
It’s not surprising that the communist want to use the “anti-fascists” environment to jump start their failed movement. It’s that you’re exposing them, as well as others.
I don’t even like it when Hannity and his Pro-Trump guests call them “Nazi’s”.
Bolsheviks, Communists, Pinkos, Reds. Why not tarnish them with what they truly are?
History, education, current events BUMP!
I don’t get it. They are what they are, which is extreme leftists.
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