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Communist CARTOON Book RULING Clawss REDFIELD #1881234

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Communist CARTOON Book RULING Clawss REDFIELD #1881234
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In the struggle of workers against their oppressors, even humor
is a weapon. In response to the narcotic bourgoise cartoons, the
Daily Worker proudly printed work of A. Redfield. This
book is a compilation of those drawings.
<p>Robert Forsythe writes in the introduction "(Redfield's)
drawings are biting, cauterizing and delightful...reflecting the
honest disdain of the workers for the pathetic upper classes."
The cartoons are in fact cynical, obvious, sophmoric and just
plain dumb and mean. There is no wit here and even less truth
(there are a few exceptions, pg 140 for example). The
controllers of the means of production?and by extension the
middle class?are portrayed as selfish, stupid and
conscienceless. The parasites are portrayed with their noses so
high in the air their faces are parallel to the horizon. There are
heaps of disdain, but none of it is honest. New Yorker
cartoons of the time do a much better job of lampooning the
plutocrats than these scrawls do. The tactics of the artist are so
redudant, obvious and simplistic his obviously believed he was
communicating with morons. So in the end the contempt is for
the workers, not the masters. The introductory and following
essays are equally striking in their nihilism and ignorance.
<p>And like most everything having to do with practical
Communism, the workmanship is shoddy. Still this is an
important piece of American political history.
<p>Redfield, A. The Ruling Clawss New ...
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<tr><td>Condition:See Description</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:1935</td></tr>
<tr><td>Country:United States</td></tr>
<tr><td>Maker:The Daily Worker</td></tr>
<tr><td>Height:10.125</td></tr>

<tr><td>Width:7.25</td></tr>
<tr><td>Weight:3</td></tr>
<tr><td>Title:Communist CARTOON Book RULING Clawss REDFIELD</td></tr>
<tr><td>Style:Cartoons</td></tr>

<tr><td>Type:Hardcover</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location:Buffalo, NY</td></tr>
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