Enroll [in the Italian Communist Party] - for democratic unity, for the struggle for reforms, for the socialist perspective - this is a decisive momentThis 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.
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It's my revolution - a hundred years of assaulting the skyThis 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.
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People before profits - Another world is possibleThis 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
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Proletarian democracy is a million times more democratic than any bourgeois democracy; Soviet power is a million times more democratic than the most democratic bourgeois republicThis 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.
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Strengthen that dike - Schouten, Anti-Revolutionary, list 3This 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.
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Workers have nothing to lose but their chains, and a world to winThis is a Soviet poster celebrating 1st May, the international Worker’s Day. The flag says the famous “Workers of all countries, unite!” from the Communist Manifesto, and the caption below reports the next sentence, which is also famous: “The workers have nothing to lose but their chains, and the whole world to win”, under the text “1 May” and below the attribution (“K. Marx and F. Engels”). Finally, the text at the top says “Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic” (the official denomination of Russia within the Soviet Union).
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