Communism

This poster celebrates the October revolution. It references “All power to the soviets!”, a Bolshevik slogan which became one of the symbols of the revolution. Poster by V. Sachkov, 1989.

This poster references the motto of the Soviet Pioneers - Всегда готов!, “Be ready!”. Specifically, pioneers would answer the call “Пионер, к борьбе за дело Коммунистической партии Советского Союза будь готов!” (Pioneers, for the struggle for the cause of the communist party of the Soviet Union be ready!) with “Всегда готов!” (Always ready!). First item: A. Dobrov, 1964

This poster was made in 1972 by the Italian Communist Party (more precisely, the “Livorno federation”, as we read in the corner). Note that the flags superimposed do not have a special meaning in the context of this poster, as it was the symbol of the Italian Communist Party.

The sentence is a quote from the introduction to the Programme of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union adopted by the 22nd Congress of the CPSU in 1961. The words behind the man say “peace”, “demilitarization”, “cooperation”, “social progress” to his left; “work”, “communism”, “scientific progress” to his right. He holds a book called “Programme of the CPSU”. Author: N. Babin

Of course, the card is not part of the poster. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find a clean version.

This is a membership card for the FGCI (Federazione Giovanile Comunista Italiana, Italian Communist Youth Federation) for the year 2017, marking a hundred years since the October revolution. The card features a quote by Soviet futurist Vladimir Majakovskij from his I, myself autobiography: To accept or not to accept? There was no such question for me… [It was] my revolution.

“1917” in the background refers to the year of the October revolution.

This sticker references Marxismuss, a German congress organized by marx21, which is itself a Trotzkyist organization within the German far-left party Die Linke. Location: near Vauban, Freiburg, Germany Location: near Vauban, Freiburg, Germany

This poster features a quote from Lenin’s The proletarian revolution and the renegade Kautsky: The old bourgeois apparatus - the bureaucracy, the privileges of wealth, of bourgeois education, of social connections […] - all this disappears under the Soviet form of organisation. Freedom of the press ceases to be hypocrisy, because the printing-plants and stocks of paper are taken away from the bourgeoisie. The same thing applies to the best buildings, the palaces, the mansions and manorhouses.

This is an electoral poster for the Dutch Anti-Revolutionary party, led by Jan Schouten, for the general elections of 1948, where it didn’t win any seats. “Anti-Revolutionary” doesn’t refer to communism, but dates back to the French Revolution.