Pro Capitalist Artwork

[Sugar Hill Kevis]

This is something I kind of stole the idea from some guys I saw at the G20 protests... I want to come up with a series of satirical pro capitalist posters... here's the first one, I want to hear your feedback on the concept, the colours, the style and perhaps any changes you'd make to it...

I'm not entirely convinced of the typography myself, so any alternate spins you guys have, feel free to go wild.

http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/3200/7dayweek.jpg

[Sugar Hill Kevis]

Second piece

http://th00.deviantart.com/fs43/300W/i/2009/102/3/3/Money_Can__t_Buy_Me_Love_by_kevis.jpg

[An archist]

In the first one, the 7 is maybe a bit too bold?

[Sean]

I just googled "pro capitalism" looking for some inspiration on the subject matter, and first result was
http://www.beyondtv.org/nato/crap/capitalismrocks.jpg

[ls]

There's more where that came from Sean: http://www.beyondtv.org/nato/crap/craps.htm and here http://conservativehome.blogs.com/centreright/2009/04/images-from-procapitalist-demo.html.

[rednordman]

This is something I kind of stole the idea from some guys I saw at the G20 protests... I want to come up with a series of satirical pro capitalist posters... here's the first one, I want to hear your feedback on the concept, the colours, the style and perhaps any changes you'd make to it...

I'm not entirely convinced of the typography myself, so any alternate spins you guys have, feel free to go wild.

http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/3200/7dayweek.jpgThats awsome!

[teenagebricks]

Excellent work, Kevis. I really love the colours on that first one. Keep it up.

[Sean]

I might try my hand at a few of these myself, just to help me get into illustrator (I'm still staring blankly at it.:)
"Invade more countries, cheaper oil now" might be a good one.

[Hoxhaist]

:laugh: these works and photos are hilarious!!!

[Sugar Hill Kevis]

R-r-r-remix!

http://th08.deviantart.com/fs43/300W/f/2009/104/7/5/Money_Can__t_Buy_Me_Love_by_kevis.jpg

[ComradeOm]

Very nice. What's the font used in that last one?

[CheFighter777]

http://streetbonersandtvcarnage.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/bush-bomb-dees.jpg

[LOLseph Stalin]

I love these. Great job comrades!

[JimmyJazz]

All I can use is MS paint. :closedeyes:

http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc101/vtm20002000/capitalism.gif

[LOLseph Stalin]

http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc101/vtm20002000/capitalism.gif

Win. Great job. It's so true. :lol:

[Sugar Hill Kevis]

Very nice. What's the font used in that last one?

It's called "Birth of a Hero" http://www.dafont.com/birth-of-a-hero.font

[Knight of Cydonia]

http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/3200/7dayweek.jpg
this! look nice!

[jake williams]

7 day week
I don't want to be an ass, but maybe the point would be clearer as "7 day work week"? I just don't know if its intent is as clear outside the context of a leftist forum's discussion on satirical "pro-capitalist" artwork.

[Sugar Hill Kevis]

Yeah, I agree actually... It's a bit ambiguous at the moment, it could just be taken as observational of the number of days in the week...

[genstrike]

Maybe someone could do something with the Australian "888" slogans from the fight for the eight hour day? Something like "1806"

Or photoshop this pic to change the hours:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:8hoursday_banner_1856.jpg

[Patchd]

I just googled "pro capitalism" looking for some inspiration on the subject matter, and first result was
http://www.beyondtv.org/nato/crap/capitalismrocks.jpg


This one was done by leftists taking the piss in Manchester.

[CheFighter777]

http://www.nicholsoncartoons.com.au/cartoons/new/2003-03-28%20Bush%20sends%20message%20to%20Iraq%20Korea%20 Editor%201.JPG

[Jack]

http://www.smbc-comics.com/comics/20030501-2.gif

http://www.smbc-comics.com/comics/20030509-2.gif

Needed somewhere to dump these, somewhat related.

[Alex Libman]

All art is capitalist in nature unless it is produced under the threat of violence, which is the basis of socialism.

Capitalism is like mathematics or any other rational system - it does not require your approval. It is the natural state of man in absence of aggression.

[Alex Libman]

Try telling that to the 1/3rd of the world who live in poverty.

Everything is relative. Before humans evolved our ancestors were monkeys, and rodents before that. The human civilization brought many advances, and the reason they are disproportionally distributed is because some cultures were better at creating wealth than other cultures, and some individuals better than other individuals.

Socialism assumes that the gods created a perfect world and that money just rains from the sky, which greedy people grab in disproportional quantities. The reality is that everything achieved by the human race has been created by someone with the incentive of benefiting from that creation (i.e. private ownership of capital). Nations that embrace the principles of wealth creation (i.e. free market capitalism) tend to go from sweatshops to skyscrapers in just a couple of generations.

[SocialismOrBarbarism]

All art is capitalist in nature unless it is produced under the threat of violence, which is the basis of socialism.

Capitalism is like mathematics or any other rational system - it does not require your approval. It is the natural state of man in absence of aggression.

All art is capitalist in nature? The basis for production in socialism is violence?

gtfo troll

[manic expression]

Everything is relative. Before humans evolved our ancestors were monkeys, and rodents before that. The human civilization brought many advances, and the reason they are disproportionally distributed is because some cultures were better at creating wealth than other cultures, and some individuals better than other individuals.

What stupidity. European countries only became wealthy relatively recently, and mostly during and after industrialization. It was industry, not culture, that made Europe more powerful than other nations. Further, the capitalist system in Europe created wealth only for a specific sector of society and deprived the rest. 19th Century London illustrates this quite literally.

For all your poetic nonsense about the development of civilization, it seems you haven't the slightest idea about history. The only way you can convince yourself of your garbage is by whitewashing all of history before the 17th Century.

And after all that, you completely avoided the original point. Well done, you just hit the trifecta of idiocy.


Socialism assumes that the gods created a perfect world and that money just rains from the sky, which greedy people grab in disproportional quantities. The reality is that everything achieved by the human race has been created by someone with the incentive of benefiting from that creation (i.e. private ownership of capital). Nations that embrace the principles of wealth creation (i.e. free market capitalism) tend to go from sweatshops to skyscrapers in just a couple of generations.

You obviously know less about socialism than you do history: nothing. Socialism pinpoints the origin of wealth and the process in which capital is created. Capitalists, on the other hand, imagine that property ownership equals labor, that buying and owning stocks translates into work. Nothing could be more insipid than this fantasy that the capitalist class accomplishes anything but the naked exploitation of those who make everything in this world.

Oh, and if you actually think there are no sweatshops in cities with skyscrapers, you're just a fool. Next time you're in NYC, try leaving Manhattan (or just midtown) and see what you see, kid.

Have fun watching your precious little market self-destruct in front of your eyes, sucker! :lol:

[JimmyJazz]

This one was done by leftists taking the piss in Manchester.

That's hilarious. I just thought it was 'shopped.

[kbjami]

I love these pictures.