Communist tie-dye T-shirt......

[Oktyabr]

This is pretty fucking ridiculous.....

However, at school, our current history unit (somehow that ties into Language Arts) is the 1960's unit, and in a week or so we'll be taking a trip to Cantigny, which was a popular picnic spot during that era.

So we had to make tie-dye shirts...

Try as I might, I could not get the pattern to work, and realizing that someone literally drew a smily face onto their shirt with the dye, I figured, just for the hell of it, to draw a very large and obvious hammer and sickle onto my own....

I realized that the shirt turned out quite nicely, even though it really didn't look like a tie-dye shirt at all (some people even told me it was really cool)

So later on last night, I was reading, and I was called downstairs by my mother, the first thing I heard from my sister was "Good lord", and she plain and simply told me, "Did you make a communist shirt?" I responded saying, "....The hammer and the sickle is a sign of strength and unity"

She didn't buy it.

[Oktyabr]

I wish I could post a picture of the shirt, it's pretty neat.

[Dóchas]

aw shit man!!! how do your parents feel about communism?

[Oktyabr]

I'm not so sure, but my dad hates socialists and socialism.

(He hates Obama because he thinks he's "so socialist" :laugh:

The weird thing is I live in a petty bourgeois family, but I reject the bourgeois in general

[Dóchas]

I'm not so sure, but my dad hates socialists and socialism.

(He hates Obama because he thinks he's "so socialist" :laugh:

The weird thing is I live in a petty bourgeois family, but I reject the bourgeois in general

i guess you could say you didnt know what it stood for you just liked the look of it...or come out and tell them you are communist and proud!!! whichever ;)

[Oktyabr]

i guess you could say you didnt know what it stood for you just liked the look of it...or come out and tell them you are communist and proud!!! whichever ;)

My parents already kinda know I'm a communist.....

[Oktyabr]

My parents already kinda know I'm a communist.....

Well damn, scratch that.

We just mentioned that shirt at dinner, and my mom asked me, "Do you want to be a communist?". I played coy and responded by saying, "At what?"

I shouldn't have responded that way, but I suppose that was the best I could do for something that sudden.

[Code]

Be proud of your ideology, man!! How would the world be if all of the anti-slavery whites had been "too embaraced" to stand up in slave times? I mean I know it's not near that serious but still... be proud.

[Dóchas]

My parents already kinda know I'm a communist.....

well if they already know and havent given out about it i dont see what the problem is. if they ask again just say "yeh" and go back to eating your dinner or whatever

[Oktyabr]

I don't think it's a problem, but when viewed with hindsight, it's got that awkward and uncomfortable humour I suppose

[Killfacer]

It must be weird having a completely different set of politics than your parents.

[Oktyabr]

It must be weird having a completely different set of politics than your parents.

you bet. the only people I talk to about being communist/anarchist are my friends at school. I have one kid who really agrees with what I'm saying, and another thats interested in communism and wants me to explain what its all about.

[Dóchas]

you bet. the only people I talk to about being communist/anarchist are my friends at school. I have one kid who really agrees with what I'm saying, and another thats interested in communism and wants me to explain what its all about.

well thats more than a lot of people have so consisder yourself lucky!! ;)

[Communist Theory]

Ha!
What did she do with the shirt?

[Dóchas]

Ha!
What did she do with the shirt?

something along the lines of burning it then putting the ashes in a jar and throw it in a very deep lake...all while he/she looked on in horror.

just a guess :lol:

[Blackscare]

This thread reminds me of when I came out to my friends about being gay (I thought that then, actually bi but it doesn't really matter) XD

[Dóchas]

This thread reminds me of when I came out to my friends about being gay (I thought that then, actually bi but it doesn't really matter) XD

:laugh::laugh::laugh:

[NecroCommie]

I never came out of the closet. Everyone in my family always kept me as communistish regarding my politics, so I guess they had it coming when I started hanging the painting about Lenin on my wall.

My father is a solid voter of the center party, and my mommy is a social democrat. They sometimes joke about my views, but are dead silent when my grand parents come to visit. My grandparents are reformist socialists, so they are always keen to protect me. :cool:

[Sarah Palin]

I never came out of the closet. Everyone in my family always kept me as communistish regarding my politics, so I guess they had it coming when I started hanging the painting about Lenin on my wall.

My father is a solid voter of the center party, and my mommy is a social democrat. They sometimes joke about my views, but are dead silent when my grand parents come to visit. My grandparents are reformist socialists, so they are always keen to protect me. :cool:

That's awesome. When my grandparents come to visit, everyone keeps quiet about my political views for different reasons. Such as the fact that we walked out of a restaurant after an argument.

[Oktyabr]

Ha!
What did she do with the shirt?

Nothing, when we went to Cantigny a few days later, tons of people thought it looked great, and one kid even told me it looked fantastic and that it was a really good idea to put it on the shirt. Not everyone knew that it was a symbol for communism, most just thought it looked neat (basically why I put it on the shirt), even though some people realized that it was similar to the emblem of the Soviet Union. People still loved it. There was one person who told me to "go back to Cuba" while we were eating lunch there, and another kid who said "arrest him! he's a commie!" at school, to which my spanish teacher replied "there's nothing wrong with being a communist" (She's awesome).

[Oktyabr]

Nothing, when we went to Cantigny a few days later, tons of people thought it looked great, and one kid even told me it looked fantastic and that it was a really good idea to put it on the shirt. Not everyone knew that it was a symbol for communism, most just thought it looked neat (basically why I put it on the shirt), even though some people realized that it was similar to the emblem of the Soviet Union. People still loved it. There was one person who told me to "go back to Cuba" while we were eating lunch there, and another kid who said "arrest him! he's a commie!" at school, to which my spanish teacher replied "there's nothing wrong with being a communist" (She's awesome).

Sorry for not posting a humorous response, but seeing as that had already been done, I thought I'd just state the truth. My mom high-fived me when she heard how good the reception had been. I thought for the first 10 minutes I'd get in trouble for the shirt, but people started to tell me how cool it was and got me to show it to their friends that the nervousness wore off.