{"id":14974,"date":"2015-06-27T14:07:09","date_gmt":"2015-06-27T06:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=14974"},"modified":"2015-06-27T19:07:29","modified_gmt":"2015-06-27T11:07:29","slug":"2780-appropriating-communism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=14974","title":{"rendered":"[2780] Appropriating communism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a time capitalism and communism battled each other. I am of course simplifying the conflict by a whole lot but that was how most of the world saw it then and even now.<\/p>\n<p>I was at the Tate Modern in London recently. Inside the museum, there is a room filled with communist propaganda material presented as art. I stood in the middle of the room thinking how complete the defeat of communism was. So complete, the free society that we (I?) live in now allows&nbsp;us to appropriate hard communist material extolling the masses to embrace communist values as merely an expensive artistic curiosity.<\/p>\n<p>Forty or thirty years ago, these posters were part of a culture war, which itself was part of a real war. Now, well, they are something you sell on eBay, hang on&nbsp;the wall because it looks pretty, or even copy and mass produce them in the name of profit.<\/p>\n<p>I spent quite some time there feeling the same way I felt as if I had&nbsp;wandered the ruins of ancient ruins in Cambodia or Myanmar, or artifacts in the Met or the Lourve. It was a feeling of wonder of times so different from ours.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-14975\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/maddruid.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/20150607-Tate-Modern-Communism.jpg?w=580&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Appropriating Communism\"  border=\"1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/maddruid.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/20150607-Tate-Modern-Communism.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/maddruid.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/20150607-Tate-Modern-Communism.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/maddruid.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/20150607-Tate-Modern-Communism.jpg?w=1160&amp;ssl=1 1160w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/maddruid.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/20150607-Tate-Modern-Communism.jpg?w=1740&amp;ssl=1 1740w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a time capitalism and communism battled each other. I am of course simplifying the conflict by a whole lot but that was how most of the world saw it then and even now. I was at the Tate Modern in London recently. Inside the museum, there is a room filled with communist propaganda [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,17,8],"tags":[735,1714],"class_list":["post-14974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-photography","category-politics-government","tag-communism","tag-tate-modern"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14974"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14992,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14974\/revisions\/14992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}