I've got a class war polo and an antifascist shirt (and one that i nicked off a mate), i think that's about it. did have an Anarchist Federation one also, well, until i fled the org.
but yeah, the whole hammer and sickle shit is a bit bad imo.
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"Men choose as their prophets those who tell them that their hopes are true." -Lord Dunsany
"As a Marxist, as a Communist and as a free human being, I oppose any Czar, Dear Leader, Premier, Emperor, Kaiser, Dictator, etc, etc. So I tell you; to hell with your Stalins, Hitlers, Maos, and Francos. I oppose any tyrant not because he kills a million people, but because he is a tyrant. I say no to tyranny and oppression, and anyone who disagrees does not belong here." - Iron Felix
I've got a class war polo and an antifascist shirt (and one that i nicked off a mate), i think that's about it. did have an Anarchist Federation one also, well, until i fled the org.
but yeah, the whole hammer and sickle shit is a bit bad imo.
I have a home-made red and black cloth that can be used as a bandana, mask, flag, whatever. I also have a black t-shirt with a red hammer and sickle on it. But that's it.
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I have never in my life possessed any kind of political slogan / symbol t-shirt. I float around people with all that stuff, and antifa symbols, and slogans about veganism, and whilst I can kind of understand them being worn at meetings and congresses and stuff, I cannot for the life of me figure out why people just walking around in their everyday lives don't wear...you know...normal clothes...I mean, what's wrong with a nice button-up shirt or something?
I dont understand people obsessed with leftist themed clothing, maybe some need to indentify yourself to this political tendency, but for me, it looks a little useless, as if socialism was only about hammer and sickles and che faces, not really about working class struggle and marxism.
It fails to give a political message and makes Communists look like some members of a silly sub-culture, it makes the hammer and sickle look like a left swastika and all communists as che cultists. I actually own a soviet ushanka, since it was a gift from a friend of mine who traveled to Europe years ago, but it almost never sees the light of day, and in the rare occasions I put it on my head, it is only so because of a joke.
But that is just my opinion, so dont get angry please.
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''...to keep in mind that socialism, since it has become a science, demands that it be pursued as a science, i.e., that it be studied.''
Well...ity takes all sorts.
Some symbolism will draw peoples attention and that will open the possibility of debate where previously there was none.
If I wear my Black Rose or Fighting Cat polo-shirts I often get people who comment on it and that has given a lot of people food for thought and ideas which they previously did not think about. I am usually very open and easilly approachable...so for me that works.
And seeing symbolism (the serious symbolism) means people will get used to it being around. They will not see it as such a fringe movement anymore...it kind of counter acts the propaganda. But yes...it matters what you are wearing; how you look and how you act for that to work.
I have a red and black flag, and two General Strike posters. Nothing else I think (clothing wise, I wear a lot of band shirts, button ups, sweaters. no politics dawg)
I saw millions of people working.
Not for themselves but for someone else.
I saw millions of people doing.
Not what they themselves want to do.
But what someone else wants them to do.
- One-Eyed God Prophecy
fuck that girlfriend go on with your life
thats why i need no girls in my life
fuck all that i love you shit
greetings
fuck the system
fuck the cops
fuck politics
You could go that route, but if you can't sew AK Press will sell you one: http://www.akpress.org/1997/items/an...nidicalistflag
I actually have a bunch of political T-shirts, but I'm trying to shift away from them. Mostly I wore them in my late teens early 20s when I was out to shock people and get attention. Now that I've gotten a little older I don't want them to see me coming.
O, why should wrath be mute, and fury dumb?
I am no baby, I, that with base prayers
I should repent the evils I have done:
Ten thousand worse than ever yet I did
Would I perform, if I might have my will;
If one good deed in all my life I did,
I do repent it from my very soul.
Act V, Scene III; Titus Andronicus--W. Shakespeare
I've got a red flag, a red flag with an IWW logo that I painted on, an IWW cap, a "Castro hat" that I got in Cuba, and a ton of buttons (many of which I don't wear, I just like collecting political buttons). My next flag project will probably be a red/black flag.
i'm such an lifestylist that almost all my clothing is political and my house is covered in posters and flags and such.
but yeah, there is an difference between wearing an nicely designed political t-shirt like this:
which could very well have been me standing before my sticker wall
and looking like this:
if you more look like the latter than the former than yes, your girlfriends is right and yes you are ridiculous
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The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater?
Here at least We shall be free
great story, my great grandpa refused his "verzetskruis" and all other royal medals because of the velser affaire (betrayel of communist resistance fighters by royalist ones presumably on orders from the government in exile), prins bernhard (ex-nazi husband of the then queen made "commander of the resistance" while in exile) and the fact that his sons (who fought in spain as well as the resistance) still didnt get their dutch citizenship back while dutch nazi's who fought in the east didnt even loose it.[s
You jelly OP? :P
This is the resistance cross medal from my grandmother which she gave to me a week before she died. My grandfather had a larger one...but my parents keep that one.
After the war the Queen invited a lot of resistance members to stay at her palace to recuperate. Including communists. She was actually quite fond of them regardless of political outlook. My grandmother and my mother stayed there.
My mother actually met our current Queen in the gardens and she wanted my mother to tie her shoes for her since it was her first week with shoes with strings onMy mother was three years younger than the queen and she asked the Queen, of all people, who that silly girl was that couldn't tie her own shoes
I have no reason to doubt the truth since there is a photograph in our family album of the four of them. And I know my grandmother was briefly detained during the war because, when travelling by train, my mother who was three at the time siad to an officer of the Wehrmacht : "rood front" which was somewhat of an illegal greeting of comrades. My mother still has the tendency to say silly things....I think I have inherrited that wonderful trait of her
i dont have much WW2 stuff, my grandpa had some spanish civil war stuff but most of that went to the union museum or the IISG, i only kept the one poster that was an double.
i'm sure his brother who was actually in spain and in the resistance and remained an communist had a lot more but i never seen him since i politicized (he developed alzheimer by then) and found it weird to claim part of his inheritance when he died since i never saw him. but i think everything went to the IISG so i can see it there
The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater?
Here at least We shall be free
Your second graphic isn't showing up, homie.i'm such an lifestylist that almost all my clothing is political and my house is covered in posters and flags and such.
but yeah, there is an difference between wearing an nicely designed political t-shirt like this:
which could very well have been me standing before my sticker wall
and looking like this:
if you more look like the latter than the former than yes, your girlfriends is right and yes you are ridiculous
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O, why should wrath be mute, and fury dumb?
I am no baby, I, that with base prayers
I should repent the evils I have done:
Ten thousand worse than ever yet I did
Would I perform, if I might have my will;
If one good deed in all my life I did,
I do repent it from my very soul.
Act V, Scene III; Titus Andronicus--W. Shakespeare
leave your girlfriend and marry me?
A la izquierda de lo posible
I'm not a communist but I want to get a hammer and sickle shirt just to piss off rednecks.
There is only one Revolution; it is poor against rich, the people against the state, those who love against those who hate.
One of the more outlandish proposals I've seen in recent times. Still, good to break out of the ol' swanky restaurant, down on one knee etc. etc. idea. Modern!
I have a couple white t-shirts that I drew leftist things on in sharpie. I have an environmentalist shirt and a Che shirt my friend gave me but other than that my clothing isn't particularly leftist. I do have a Soviet flag that I'm going to troll nationalists with later though.
I see good points in nearly all sections of the socialist left.
I am in love with all Anarchists.
"All you punks want is a anarchy" -Fascist troll
Um what
I kind of have to agree with your girlfriend here
"Man's inhumanity to man" is not the last word. The truth lies deeper. It is economic slavery, the savage struggle for a crumb, that has converted mankind into wolves and sheep.
-Alexander Berkman
It's not meant to be Soviet stuff, not every hammer & sickle means USSR. Why can't an anarcho communist have hammer & sickle stuff?
I would like an anarcho communist flag but I can't find one that I care for. I want one that looks like my avatar.
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I wish I was political back in high school, hell middle school too. Wearing my shirts would have been soo fun. =D
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