The interest in the material comes from looking at the similarities between Soviet era Russia and contemporary US domestic and international policy. Aside from obvious parallels like war in Afghanistan, there are interesting surface level dissimilarities which point to the same problem. Worship of the state and worker in Russia and the rise of fundamentalist Christianity in the US. Russia used a much more overt hard power approach while the US uses indirect soft power through the manipulation of "capitalist" markets. I actually think the violent attacks on workers and women in the US offer an interesting mirror reflection of the idolization of the worker and women in Soviet Russia. There violence and discrimination were masked by official propaganda. In the US they are masked by the illusion of the 2 party system.
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Thanks! I've got a thing for stack filtering soviet era posters. ;-)
Somewhat reminds me of some stained glass motifs, and there's what almost might be a small winged figure down at the bottom center stage... lol
the state as religion (as presented in stained glass) there is a consistent metaphor in all of that...
The interest in the material comes from looking at the similarities between Soviet era Russia and contemporary US domestic and international policy. Aside from obvious parallels like war in Afghanistan, there are interesting surface level dissimilarities which point to the same problem. Worship of the state and worker in Russia and the rise of fundamentalist Christianity in the US. Russia used a much more overt hard power approach while the US uses indirect soft power through the manipulation of "capitalist" markets. I actually think the violent attacks on workers and women in the US offer an interesting mirror reflection of the idolization of the worker and women in Soviet Russia. There violence and discrimination were masked by official propaganda. In the US they are masked by the illusion of the 2 party system.