The Japanese Communist Party’s New Kawaii Mascots (2013)
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The Japanese Communist Party’s New Kawaii Mascots (2013)
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#2Nothing says 'cute' quite like an ideology thar killed ~300000000 people.
Re: The Japanese Communist Party’s New Kawaii Mascots (2013)
#3Nothing says 'cute' quite like an ideology thar killed ~300000000 people.
I dunno. Cats are cute and they are murderous bastards.
edit - even Stalin had something of the lovable rogue about him, back when he was a 2-bit gangster and before he commanded the deaths of millions.
Someone could easily do a kawaii cartoon version of the adventures of young Stalin. - http://spartacus-educational.com/RUSstalin1.jpg
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#4Nothing says 'cute' quite like an ideology thar killed ~300000000 people.
That had absolutely nothing to do with communism.
It's about as stupid as saying that every person killed in other wars was killed by capitalism.
Communism was merely a convenient way to distract the masses while the fat cats were making off with the loot.
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#5Cuteness, or 'kawaii' as it is known, is pervasive in Japanese culture.
Re: The Japanese Communist Party’s New Kawaii Mascots (2013)
#6Nothing says 'cute' quite like an ideology thar killed ~300000000 people.
That's not the work of Communism, that's the work of a mad dictator using his power to change his government into an authoritarian sovereignty.
If it was actually communism, he would have never had that kind of power.
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#7I'd have to say that kawaii sure beats the heck out of traditional Soviet art! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_realism)
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#8I'm only a simple country weeaboo, but i'm halfway certain this fails both as kawaii and as communist propaganda... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9s0V42omIs
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#9Nothing says 'cute' quite like an ideology thar killed ~300000000 people.
Anybody can say that ideology kills during periods of intense famine, but on the other hand, that really doesn't seem that related to the ideology itself. I don't know what a better alternative would have been, but I'm not sure that Fukuyama-style liberal democracy would even work in times of desperate famine, let alone allow people to pull themselves out of their own misfortune.
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#10> It should also be noted that the JCP apparently hired an ad agency to design the mascots, which hardly smacks of trying to pulling down the pillars of capitalism.
Common misconception is that communism is the antithesis of capitalism; Marx wrote instead about overclocking capitalism so hard that a better society could be built out of its extreme conclusion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerationism