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What are your favorite political pictures/images?
For me, it's migrant mother:
Discuss.
"How you cling to your purity, young man! How afraid you are to soil your hands! All right, stay pure! What good will it do? Why did you join us? Purity is an idea for a yogi or a monk. You intellectuals and Bourgeois anarchists use it as a pretext for doing nothing. To do nothing, to remain motionless, arms at your sides, wearing kids gloves. Well, I have dirty hands. Right up to the elbows. I've plunged them in the filth and blood. But what do you hope? Do you think you'll govern innocently?"-Jean-Paul Sartre
What's the story behind this?
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. Thoreau
ive seen this b4, powerful shit.For me, it's migrant mother:
"It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees."
-Emiliano Zapata
"At least I don't plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you ****."
-John McCain
"While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State."
-Lenin
I used to post that one! It's sometimes called "German soldiers rescue a French comrade in arms". You see 3 Germans saving a French soldier's life by pulling him out the mud of the Verdun battlefield. I think it can display a strong political message, and I'm using for 3 years now against those who have a (petty) bourgeois view of WW1.
“Where the worker is regulated bureaucratically from childhood onwards, where he believes in authority, in those set over him, the main thing is to teach him to walk by himself.” - Marx
"It is illogical and incorrect to reduce everything to the economic [socialist] revolution, for the question is: how to eliminate [political] oppression? It cannot be eliminated without an economic revolution... But to limit ourselves to this is to lapse into absurd and wretched ... Economism." - Lenin
"[During a revolution, bourgeois democratic] demands [of the working class] ... push so hard on the outer limits of capital's rule that they appear likewise as forms of transition to a proletarian dictatorship." - Luxemburg
“Well, then go forward, Tower of Bebel! [August] Bebel is one of the most brilliant representatives of scientific international socialism. His writings, speeches and works make up a great tower, a strong arsenal, from which the working class should take their weapons. We cannot recommend it enough… And if the [International] deserves to be named Tower of Bebel... well, then we are lucky to have such a Tower of Bebel with us.” - Vooruit
Most soldiers die in such circumstances. This one got lucky. They either get stuck in such a pool because they either fell or we thrown into it by a blast. Or some just hide from the bullets in a put-hole like this one, and when it rains they have the choice between either getting shot by showing themselves or get drowned in mud. That was the reality of war back then.(You have to wonder the fate of the poor stranded man in the mud.
“Where the worker is regulated bureaucratically from childhood onwards, where he believes in authority, in those set over him, the main thing is to teach him to walk by himself.” - Marx
"It is illogical and incorrect to reduce everything to the economic [socialist] revolution, for the question is: how to eliminate [political] oppression? It cannot be eliminated without an economic revolution... But to limit ourselves to this is to lapse into absurd and wretched ... Economism." - Lenin
"[During a revolution, bourgeois democratic] demands [of the working class] ... push so hard on the outer limits of capital's rule that they appear likewise as forms of transition to a proletarian dictatorship." - Luxemburg
“Well, then go forward, Tower of Bebel! [August] Bebel is one of the most brilliant representatives of scientific international socialism. His writings, speeches and works make up a great tower, a strong arsenal, from which the working class should take their weapons. We cannot recommend it enough… And if the [International] deserves to be named Tower of Bebel... well, then we are lucky to have such a Tower of Bebel with us.” - Vooruit
What struggle are these from?
"How you cling to your purity, young man! How afraid you are to soil your hands! All right, stay pure! What good will it do? Why did you join us? Purity is an idea for a yogi or a monk. You intellectuals and Bourgeois anarchists use it as a pretext for doing nothing. To do nothing, to remain motionless, arms at your sides, wearing kids gloves. Well, I have dirty hands. Right up to the elbows. I've plunged them in the filth and blood. But what do you hope? Do you think you'll govern innocently?"-Jean-Paul Sartre
I just discovered that Office Depot prints digital pictures as big as you want on glossy poster paper for pretty cheap, so we need to keep this thread going...
My second most favorite:
“Where the worker is regulated bureaucratically from childhood onwards, where he believes in authority, in those set over him, the main thing is to teach him to walk by himself.” - Marx
"It is illogical and incorrect to reduce everything to the economic [socialist] revolution, for the question is: how to eliminate [political] oppression? It cannot be eliminated without an economic revolution... But to limit ourselves to this is to lapse into absurd and wretched ... Economism." - Lenin
"[During a revolution, bourgeois democratic] demands [of the working class] ... push so hard on the outer limits of capital's rule that they appear likewise as forms of transition to a proletarian dictatorship." - Luxemburg
“Well, then go forward, Tower of Bebel! [August] Bebel is one of the most brilliant representatives of scientific international socialism. His writings, speeches and works make up a great tower, a strong arsenal, from which the working class should take their weapons. We cannot recommend it enough… And if the [International] deserves to be named Tower of Bebel... well, then we are lucky to have such a Tower of Bebel with us.” - Vooruit
Originally Posted by Magnum Photos
Last edited by JimmyJazz; 1st October 2008 at 22:47.
Favorite political image? That's difficult, but I have always loved this one:
Cofia Dic Penderyn a Merched Beca...
"Get up, stand up; stand up for your rights"
"The revolution wont be no re-reun brothers, the revolution will be live" G.S.H
"fascists on di blok haffi fite dem bak" LKJ
Favorite political image? That's difficult, but I have always loved this one:
Supremo Andres Bonifacio by Carlos "Botong" francisco
Protest in pursuit of National Democracy
Casualties of protest
PREPARE FRESHIES! the infamous 300% tuition fee increase in the University of the Philippines
Last edited by Armand Iskra; 10th October 2008 at 14:46.
Fission Mailed!My second most favorite:
el salvador in the 80s. the second foto is when guerrillas shot down an american helicopter.
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. Thoreau
I recently ordered this as a print:
There was a picture I saw a long time ago - it was a photo of a female guerrilla, possible from Vietnam or El Salvador, cradling a rifle and looking deeply thoughtful. If anyone knows what I'm talking about, please post!
You mean this one? Apparently this woman is a nepalese maoist guerrilla:
