alexei_1917 [any]

The delightful Soviet aesthetics of the Cold War are gone, and every modern commie thing looks exactly the same as capitalist design styles, with hammers and sickles badly bolted on and maybe a coat of red paint… and the powerful united front that was the Warsaw Pact is gone, leaving scattered small AES states that are far from achieving anything close to communism and not really able to rebuild such an organisation. Yeah, being a socialist nowadays sucks. Everything looks and feels terrible, as the legacy of the Soviet Union slowly crumbles and dies.

This, for sure. At least the commie posters aren’t blatantly sexist, and often advocate for the equality of the systematically oppressed.

Stalinism doesn’t exist.

I want some. Bet that feels amazing.

This is what I mean when I say I like 1950s aesthetics. Well, that and the Cold War. Not that I miss Western views of communists being even worse than present day, but, I do miss “The Commies” having some power and cultural impact.

Western liberals say communist propaganda plastered everywhere in socialist states is dystopian, but I’d massively prefer it over the advertising plastered everywhere in Western capitalist countries. Or better yet, don’t cover every square inch of available space with a poster or banner or billboard.

You get what you pay for, and the only people willing to babysit that many toddlers for free are commies!

Red nap mats, and blankets with a Soviet flag design on them! Consistent lessons on sharing the toys! Naptime story each day is read out of Lenin’s collected works! Everyone has to do their share cleaning up the toys at end of day! Lots of plush grizzly bears and panda bears, no other plushies in the toy bins! Most of the toys are “roleplay grownup jobs” type playthings, complete with a dress up box full of stereotypical job uniforms! There’s a portrait of Stalin hung in every room! The front hallway corkboard decorated with the children’s drawings is full of commie symbols and crude crayon depictions of Soviet leaders!

But hey, at least desperate working parents don’t have to pay for it! Sure, you have to deal with a baby Red after work, but if you can’t afford a daycare that’ll teach capitalist propaganda or religious values instead, it might seem worth it!

(Maybe we’d end up with less liberals if the majority of children ended up in places like that because they have two working parents who can’t afford pricier childcare.)

I wish this worked. I unfortunately live with several libs who definitely need an exorcism.

But at what cost?

Where I live, there’s a lot of advertising, but nowhere near as bad as in the US. When I first visited the US, beyond trips to see Dad’s brother who lives there, during which we were not there long and all of the children were simply left in the home with some of the adults while others went out, I was astounded at the sheer amount of advertising. I’d never seen giant billboards on the sides of the highway before! Streetside billboards, sure. But not on a highway!

This, absolutely. Hell, replace it with the kind of stereotypical commie propaganda the West accuses socialist states of plastering everywhere, that’d still be nicer than corporate slop.

Tbh, a huge commie meetup where a bunch of different leftist groups from all over the world are all converging in one place, and telling the country involved’s government and the hotel/conference center we were something incredibly lame and apolitical or obviously liberal, would be pretty funny.

Hopefully we could organise something way better than when Tumblr tried to do a convention, lol.

It is absolutely popular. I know people who’ve gone. They hate “The Commies”, and refuse to support AES states in any way, directly or indirectly, but they’ve visited resorts in Cuba.

Liberal cognitive dissonance is one hell of a thing.

Oh, that’s good.

I do like that we can make Soviet Bear jokes about it, but the true origin is funny too.

Ooh, that sounds like a very cool thing.

I need to download and sort some theory to read and put it on my devices… the family camping trip is coming up, there’s pretty bad cell service in the campground, and I always get caught out with nothing good to read. As I spend the night before we leave scrambling to pack the final things.

What’s with the bear theming, anyway? Soviet Bear joke because we’re all a bunch of tankies, or more esoteric than that? Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely love it, but I do wonder why?

Of course capitalism can’t be at fault for everything, that’d be too obvious! Blame the trans people and the commies, they make you feel icky so they must be the cause of your problems! All the conservative populists say so! It’s not class war, it’s obviously queer folks who are the dangerous minority, not the top 1%!

Of course he’s a Trot.

Even in the universe where he’s a communist, the American left still can’t catch a break!

In reference to Lenin in the sky…

A Marxist website needs to look as early-internet/Soviet brutalism in modern form as possible! Reading theory online just doesn’t feel right unless the website feels like it’s been frozen in time since the end of the bloody Cold War!

Better yet, it should be text only, and look like some sort of super old tech relic from like '90 or '91, that’s only updates in 30 years have been for stability and compatibility with the modern 'Net, while not updating anything design wise! Old news articles and site announcements that refer to the USSR in present tense on the homepage! A time capsule of Online Leftism before Online was really a Thing!

(Unless, of course, modern design tools are used to give a feel of “Cold War era if we’d had modern tech back then” which is cool as fuck.)