When you say you don't pay attention to politics you're making a political decision. Sitting around and doing nothing is a political act in stating that you choose not to care. Nothing you do is ever apolitical. The word idiot comes from Ancient Greek and was used to deride people who cared only about their own lives and didn't get involved in the running of the polis. It's time to start caring.
I live in Bristol and study politics. Most of the stuff here is usually political, a little bit of stuff from my friends. Marxist. Views, opinions, regurgitations. It all tumbles forth.
‘CPSU - Forward to communism! The GULAG plan at any price!’ The text on the scythe reads ‘The bright future’
A male convict’s tattoo belonging to a recidivist known as ‘The Professor’.
So apparently this is anti-Soviet propaganda but personally I think it’s really fucking cool.
Scenes from ‘October: Ten Days That Shook the World’ (1927), directed by Sergei Eisenstein, starring Vladimir Popov, Vasily Nikandrov, and Eduard Tisse.
Created in honor of the 10th year of the Union’s existence, Eisenstein’s work recalls the events of the revolution and overthrow of the provisional government. The film notably depicts the leader of the provisional government, Aleksandr Kerensky, as an incompetent and incapable leader as well as Eisenstein’s use of the ‘intellectual montage’ where he employs various objects as allegories to the plot events.
A train overturned by striking workers at the main railway depot in Tiflis in 1905; during the revolution of 1905, railroads such as the trans baikal railway were seized by revolutionaries and strikers in order to hault the advance of returning russian troops from the russo-japanese war, resulting in the tsar having to transport seperate groups of loyal troops along the trans-siberian railway in order to restore order.
For the LOLZ
“-Following the revolutions in Russia last week, Prime Minister Lloyd George has come under fire for the UK Government’s botched attempts to evacuate British holidaymakers. We turn now to our correspondent in Petrograd.
-Yes, John. I’m here at Petrograd airport and have been talking to people cutting their holidays short in an attempt to get home safely. The Coalition Government has faced heavy criticism from holidaymakers for what they say was a hesitant and incompetent effort to evacuate UK nationals from Russia in the wake of the revolution. I’m joined here by Phil who took his family on a ten-day package holiday to a ski resort in the Caucuses. Phil, what has been your experience of the revolution?
-Well, I booked this package over the summer and we’re absolutely gutted that the Russian proletariat has chosen to launch its revolution now. At the end of the day, we’ve worked hard and saved our money to go on this holiday and it’s disappointing that our enjoyment has been marred by people seeking fundamental human rights. We’re gonna try and get the Provisional Government to pay the excess on the holiday insurance but I’ll not hold me breath.
-As you said, John, some disgruntled holidaymakers. Back to the studio.”
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