Twitter Tuesday
Each Tuesday we bring you politically oriented Twitter posts from folks in the comic book industry to show it’s not all big guns and tights. It’s another edition of Twitter Tuesday!
Tag Archives: socialism
Choice Quotes
Secret Warriors #17
Sitwell – China… well, let’s see… it’s essentially operating with a two class system that was erected under a socialist regime, but is now propped up by a neo-capitalist economic class. It’s also burdened by overpopulation and a rapidly growing senior class which is poised to undo much of the financial growth achieved in recent years. In my opinion, the situation is somewhat precarious… sketchy.
Choice Quotes
Fantastic Four #579
Narrator – Unnaturally enhanced by nanotech, superhuman growth hormones, and regenerative cosmic energy, Natalie X gains control of the entire population of Nu-World, thereby achieving for the first time in human history the thought-to-be fictional socialist state.
Superman: War of the Supermen #4
Lois Lane – One Kryptonian came to Earth and helped make it a better place. We made hm our greatest hero. 100,000 Kryptonians came and they were seen as a threat. They were met with suspicion, hatred, and eventually, death. We — humanity — were incapable of accepting what they had to offer, accepting that change, so we lashed out at them. Destroyed them. Someday I hope humankind will be more receptive to change, to living as a “melting pot” of people and cultures. To set aside suspicions and live together peacefully. Sometimes that seems like an impossible goal. For now, though, all we can do is hold to that hope… and let the dream for a better world sustain us.
Friday Fun – America Under Socialism
We’re back with a new entry for our Friday Fun series looking at politically charged historical comic books. We felt today’s was appropriate considering the hysteria and fear that America is turning towards Socialism.
America Under Socialism! was produced in 1950 and only around 10 or so copies are known to still be in existence. It warns how great societies have collapsed under Socialism, like Rome and also warns Britain will collapse as well. The issue here is being Britain seems to be going strong about 60 years after this comic was published.
We’re of course warned of medical services for all, the dangers of minimum wages and strikes, and that Capitalists are the enemy. Very humorous seeing where deregulation has gotten us over this past decade or so.
There’s so many things wrong with this comic I don’t even know where to begin. Check out some examples and then below for a link to the entire comic.
You can read the full comic at http://www.ep.tc/problems/35/03.html.
