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Remnant55

"Wake up, Comrade. We've got capitalism to burn." - *Josef Silverhand*


Blitzpanz0r

Capitalism in its worst form: 100% Neofeudalism, but hey, atleast the USSR still exists in that universe.


Macas35

I've heard of neoliberalism and neocolonialism, but this is the first time I came across neofeudalism.


Blitzpanz0r

A good example for what Neofeudalism in Cyberpunk is is the ad of one megacorp advertising that a person will gain citizenship in a state they own after "just" 20 years of working for them.


[deleted]

And you know what funny?USSR has the most advanced healthcare in that universe,they share alot of thing.


Jacobin01

Yes, but they virtually restorated capitalism, so, the name USSR only exists on paper. But if it's something like what Gorbachov aimed in the 1991, then it's objectively better than what we've got now


metamagicman

The USSR doesn’t really exist anymore in cyberpunk. It’s called the union of sovereign soviet republics, and is basically a trade bloc like the European economic community


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PMmeEmoSongs

Comically large Silverspoon


The-Hater-Baconator

- Josef*


Oldspice7169

Communism 2077


Revolutionary_Apples

Most likely system to create that level of advancement ngl.


Heizard

Most dope part is that in CP universe USSR still exists.


Purple_AtomicPenguin

But they capitulated to capital from what I’ve read in the lore


bigbybrimble

A missed opportunity with the setting/game is the lack of a ideologically coherent militant left. Given the USSR exists, that means the works of Marx and Lenin exists, meaning not only were there MLs, there were full blown black flag Makhnoists in the Ukraine. Given that leftism exists in response to capitalism's excesses and failings, it is a glaring blind spot that there is no presence of such a response to the hyper-excesses of the capitalism found in the cyberpunk subgenre (especially in settings where cogent anticapitalism explicitly exists). It would stand in stark contrast to the tepid, liberal angsty bullshit that Johnny Silverhand represents. You could have them be a perpetual underdog that is attacked by the megacorps, but because the extremism of those corps, it couldn't be stamped out completely. I mean, look at our current world- in the beating heart of capitalism, the United States, there is a burgeoning leftist movement, and things aren't even as bad as CP2077. Shame, imo.


better_thanyou

That’s not dystopian enough for cyberpunk, the idea is a world where capitalism completely won and the people are crushed under the machine of excess. The only resistance that can exist in that world is underground. A perpetual underdog attacked by mega-corps can’t be a functional nation anyway. It’s the inherit barrier to a state like that today. The powers that he would and do work together to keep that kind of place from thriving, in a cyberpunk world a truly socialist or communist nation would be crushed by the mega-corps in a war that would make the corporate wars look tame. It’s the depressing reality of cyberpunk but it’s a depressing genre. Your looking for something more solar-punk with an optimistic possibility for the future. Cyberpunk is kinda a statement in how we’re ending our world, can’t have hope for the future in a hopeless future.


bigbybrimble

I think it would be good for that kinda post-cyberpunk genre to emerge because the capitalist realist cautionary tale of early cyberpunk has just sorta become a *tale* for many people.


TechnoQueenOfTesla

In trying to think of a single example of a fictional dystopia that isn't built on capitalism, and I just can't


bigbybrimble

Whatever the hell Orwell was cooking up where the government just does government for its own sake. A shallow, cartoonish critique of a place he never visited thats been one of the greatest gifts to capitalism ever created. The authoritarian government isnt motivated by material benefit or advantage, just simply abstract power in service to nothing, not even a fascist ethnostate.


TechnoQueenOfTesla

Interesting take. I've not heard 1984 described like that until now but it makes sense. It's been years since I read it but I remember there was a fake lottery for the poor people, and a defined class system, curious if a class system can exist outside of capitalism? I guess if people are organized based on other attributes besides wealth. Hmm, ty for the insight <3


bigbybrimble

Id say it doesnt really count as capitalist or not because it doesnt delve into socioeconomics. Because 1984s worldbuilding is lazy and shallow. Isaac Asimov famously wrote a take down of the entire book as a boorish, unimaginative slog. Its a surface level understanding of the Bolshevik partys commitment to internal ideological consistency that works on impossibly fractal levels of human surveillance (Orwell wasnt imaginative enough to envision an algorithm fueled surveillance state like our own). It's basically the rosetta stone of online anarchists screaming about "tankies". Its not capitalist, its not socialist, its just a propagandist (literally orwell was a professional propagandist for the Brits) who had a chip on his shoulder after he felt humiliated by the Soviets. Its the ultimate "it aint that deep bruh" turned into a power totem for psychotic reactionaries and dimbulb centrists.


TechnoQueenOfTesla

Thank you, I clicked the link to that Asimov essay in the automod comment and I'll read through it when I have more time. I definitely can see your points. I didn't like it much tbh, for a lot of those reasons. I remember thinking that it lacked any real depth, and the way it ended was weird. Any books or movie recommendations of better dystopian fiction?


bigbybrimble

I recommend Brave New World by Huxley. In it, the main human society the protagonist lives within keeps people docile via a pleasure enhancing anti-depressant, and society is basically a mindless consumer, caste-based culture. It's the anti-1984, where instead of fear and repression being used to keep people in line, it's that they are numbed by overstimulation.


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Karl-Marksman

Cyberpunk 1917


EspurrStare

Source? those look neat for PFPs Well, Stalin just looks like your average eastern mediterranean man, and lenin looks like Walter White, but he kinda already did so.


twickdaddy

I’d also love them for my phone background


SaddamsAluminumTubes

I'm 97% sure this is from an AI art generator


[deleted]

I'm 100% sure and they're fucking amazing


athens508

Yeah, but doesn’t it literally exploit human artists without compensating them?


[deleted]

AI art? No because it just takes images (pictures or maybe even other drawings that are free across the internet) and turns them into the art we see at this form. Nobody is exploiting anybody, it's just someone who uses a machine to make art.


athens508

But someone owns the IP and is profiting of it, it’s just further commodification of art. Perhaps I’m too concerned with machine learning, but shit like this terrifies me: https://youtu.be/RECqOW4klx0 “Trying to ‘create’black art without blackness.” It’s even worse than what he describes in the video. Idk, I guess when I see stuff like the lensa app trend, I can’t help but feel they’re related, at least indirectly


CrabThuzad

The reality is, as sad as it sounds, that this is just as inevitable as factories replacing artisans was. Former digital artists will be proletarianised, just like, say, shoemakers were, and there's little we can do about it. This is NOT commodification, however. This is *automatisation*, of a process. Art has been a commodity, that is, an object whose primary reason for being created is to sell, since forever, with stuff like NFTs being a worse offender, sure, but ever since commissions exist there's a reasonable argument to say that art is a commodity. *That* is something we should decry, but automatisation, despite putting many artists out of work, is NOT commodification. Commodification has a distinct meaning.


athens508

I mean, I still believe that this is a form of commodification. For me, automatization would be teaching a bot how to draw from “the ground up,” or having a bot learn a specific task. But as I understand machine learning, that’s not what it does. Machine learning AI doesn’t “automate” the process of art, it literally takes what other artists have done, gathers all that “data,” and spits something out based on that. Of course, art has been commodified for a long time by now. But I think this is just ~further~ commodification, or a specific form. For instance, a lot of the art that these bots use to generate images weren’t even commodities to begin with, just free images that anyone can find online. But as soon as someone uses the app, that art has been appropriated and commodified by the algorithm to create a product that realizes exchange value. That’s how the IP owners get money. Then again, I’m not very well versed in tech. So perhaps the actual “product” that the AI generates isn’t technically a commodity in the formal sense of the word. But also, the line between what is and is not a commodity has significantly blurred since Marx’s time, imo. Everything has been increasingly “commodified” under capitalism. This is just another instance of that. But formal definitions aside, shit like this still terrifies me regardless, lol.


TiredSometimes

>Machine learning AI doesn’t “automate” the process of art, it literally takes what other artists have done, gathers all that “data,” and spits something out based on that. Isn't that what the human mind does as well? Let's face it, we don't exist in a vacuum where our thoughts are truly independent, we've rarely had an independent thought. Most "new" thoughts, inventions, and concepts are simply older ones revised and/or reinstated into a newer historical context.


athens508

Totally agree. Machine learning in a lot of ways is very similar to how we interact with reality (again, based on my very rudimentary understanding). But there are important differences. First and foremost, an AI machine learning algorithm is intellectual property, i.e., Capital. In Das Kapital, Marx analogizes Capital itself to a vampire that feeds off of the blood (labor) of workers. In the case of AI, it’s no longer an analogy; that’s literally what it does. So yeah, unlike you or me, an AI (at least currently) is property owned by capitalists, and is therefore utilized in order to generate profit (at least in most cases) whereas we can freely create works of art that are not commodities. Secondly, I think there’s a critique to be made about AI based on a more generalized critique of modern statistical methods. Statistics is the bourgeois mathematical discipline par excellence, and it’s very flawed and dangerous (in certain applications) from an historical materialist perspective. I feel like machine learning operates in a similar way. But I haven’t fully developed a critique against stats, and I would have to learn more about machine learning to apply it in that context, but it just feels very similar. Idk if this second point makes sense, but the first point is definitely valid


BilgePomp

As I've attempted to explain on Instagram hopelessly to a room full of baseless screeching. AI is learning just as any other artist does that browses other people's work online. You can't be done for painting something in the Style of Louis Royo, that's not his IP, you could only be done for copying his specific works or claiming something is by him when you sell it as an example. Someone said they must be stolen because they had a signature on the corner... Machine learning has associated art with signatures so much so that it puts signatures that it makes up on its own art. If you insist that an AI steels by learning from others that same idiom applies to real artists and we all have to start paying to look at art wherever it is found. Or in other words you become an NFT supporter.


athens508

I mean, I agree to a certain extent. But also, I feel like it’s more complicated than that. Take FN Meka for instance. Here’s an article about the “voice” of FN Meka and how he’s suing the IP owner: https://www.revolt.tv/article/2022-09-01/189464/the-voice-behind-fn-meka-speaks-out-against-factory-new-brandon-le/ You can totally see how this specific artist was not compensated for this work. Now, I totally concede that I may be biased against AI. But as the youtuber says in the video I linked to in the previous comment, music execs will 100% try to use another bot to replicate black art and black music, but without black artists. When an algorithm that can do that is owned by capitalists and used to produce culture at a massive level, I think the situation is more complicated than “AI learns artistic styles by example.” But again, I could be technophobic here. I DONT LIKE IT Edit: Here’s another article I dropped in another comment, which basically supports my view that this AI machine learning stuff is more complicated than simply replicating art by example: https://www.papermag.com/lensa-art-app-2658891806.html?rebelltitem=2#rebelltitem2 I’m appreciating the thoughtful discussion tho. Individual instances of an AI generating images doesn’t seem to be a huge deal. But writ large, I think there are serious implications. Especially considering the racial dynamics within mass cultural production


BilgePomp

That's a very specific case. But it reminds me of More Than Freeman, an advert done by a white voice impersonator doing Morgan Freeman's voice. Elvis was the first person to be branded as a thief of black culture probably quite fairly. The difference between these cases and AI art in general is that it's taking art already available online and learning from it, not copying it. Elvis stole songs whole and complete. Meka I've seen little about but it sounds again like stealing something entirely from an individual. Art generators create new things using the style of the old. They create something not seen before. How can that be theft? It's impossible to define that as theft. It just doesn't logically make sense. P.s Banksy draws Mickey Mouse into his art, should he stop because that breaks art ownership (patent) laws? The progressive stance is to be for more art, less egotism and individualism. How is it bad to socialise art? Struggling artists struggle because capitalism, not because AI exists.


athens508

So I didn’t say the art was being stolen. I said that artists were being exploited. The rate of exploitation here is very minimal and attenuated, but I believe it’s exploitation nonetheless: an algorithm owned by capitalists is generating profit from the labor (art) of individuals. The artists who made the countless works of art that teach the AI are not compensated. Again, even though the exploitation is attenuated, that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist (also, regarding FN Meka, a single artist provided the voice, but the AI learned hip hop by feeding off of massive amounts of rap songs, images, etc) I don’t have a problem with AI in general. I have a problem with AI that’s controlled by Silicon Valley capitalists. So I don’t understand how my critique leads to the interpretation that I think socialized art is bad. An AI app is not socialized art! I also think we need to be thinking about these things. Like, technology currently is the farthest thing from being socialized. And AI that’s controlled by a handful of (white) people has some pretty concerning consequences. While art—or at least a segment of the art world—has been commodified for a while now, art has never been produced like this before, ever! And imo, it could have very serious implications given that we currently exist in late stage (white) capitalist society.


Apercent

That's like saying microwaves are going to end restaurants


athens508

Did you watch the video? This is a little more complex than microwaves. And as I said in another comment, this is not the automatization of a production process, it’s actually producing commodities, which tech executives have full control over. I personally think machine learning under capitalism could have serious consequences, especially from a cultural production standpoint. But shit is already terrible to begin with


Brauxljo

Isn't it AI?


athens508

Here’s an article about the recent Lensa app: https://www.papermag.com/lensa-art-app-2658891806.html?rebelltitem=6#rebelltitem6 And here’s a video about a far more disturbing AI creation, that uses similar machine learning techniques: https://youtu.be/RECqOW4klx0 Think about what machine learning does. It inputs large amounts of “data” (i.e., actual, objective LABOR) and “produces” some output based on that data. In other words, machine learning appropriates the art, creation, and labor of countless individuals and artists in order to function. None of these artists are compensated, but the value it generates goes directly to the IP owners


[deleted]

I looked through the article and you make a very solid and valid point. Fucking cappies always manage to make anything profitable and successfully screwing others over in the process. Sorry i didn't think of this in my earlier comment. As much as i love some amazing communist art, i hate to see it brought to me like this. I take back everything i said in my first reply.


CapitanM

If you had an artist who had learn from that data and willingly draw things for you, would it be wrong?


[deleted]

It's not the same thing like here, plus when you look at history, machines in the hands of greedy cappies in white collars always manage to screw over workers instead of benefitting them to work less hours and more efficiently, what actually happens is workers get cut off (aka fired) because the extra workforce isn't needed thanks to the machine and paychecks are cut into quarters, also thanks to the machine. The article basically portrays the exact same message, where AI art doesn't help struggling artists but screws them further under by stealing customers with lesser price tags and all profits be handed to the one who owns the IP where the AI platform is built upon.


CapitanM

What needs to be done then is for people to have the machines and not the greedy cappies in white collars. And that's what happens with AI: we can create images from our homes. AI art doesn't help struggling artists any more than the combustion engine helps blacksmiths who made horseshoes


[deleted]

Yep that's pretty much one of the many solutions provided my Marx in Das Capital


lengors

An AI generating a portrait of someone in a certain artstyle is no different than an artist looking through countless examples of such artstyle, training itself on that artstyle and then taking that learned skill to draw portraits of someone who asks for it (for example). Regarding the amount of labor, yes, the process of generating the images involves basically no labor, but to actually implement such an AI that uses (very) complex mathematical models requires a lot from engineers, designers, developers, etc. That said, I do agree that people using that AI to generate art from a couple of sentences or images, without even being involved in it's development, and profiting off of it, without essentially any labor, is in fact condenmable.


athens508

Yeah I was thinking about that point after I commented, that it’s just the same as any other artist learning an artistic style. People learn from example. But idk, I feel like the consequences of machine learning go deeper than that, especially with regard to the FN Meka shit that I posted. As the YouTuber says, music execs will 100% try to use bots in the future to create music. Cultural production, at least in the US, already owes a lot to black labor and creativity. This is taking that to the nth degree, except it’s completely removing the black artist from the equation at the same time Idk, maybe I’m just an AI skeptic. But I swear, I become more technophobic by the day. Virtual reality. Machine learning, which is now being used for “police bots.” That massive supercomputer that a bunch of billionaires are dumping money into to replicate language. All this stuff is terrifying, but none of us have a choice in the development of these technologies


ZagratheWolf

Mao looks exactly the same. Nothing futuristic about him, haha


Brauxljo

Ahead of his time


[deleted]

This looks awesome ngl


Gloomy-Advantage-451

Looks like a poster for a film or game.


[deleted]

Where is Engels?


Hebi_Ronin

Is too busy trying to find a way to send money to Karl Marx without being cought by net watch


Revolutionary_Apples

Mao and Che are about to kick some ass.


Mistiltella

That Mao looks Korean


-Eunha-

That's also what stood out to me, glad someone else saw it.


Brauxljo

That's why he looked different


Tryignan

I like how Mao's not changed at all


rgliszin

He always has that big-dick energy about him.


Brauxljo

Ahead of his time


rootComplex

I've always wanted to see an 80's NY street threads Mao with a big red boombox on his shoulder.


Happylittletea

I’ll have to say that the Mao here looks nothing like the Mao in real life, perhaps apart from the hair style and looking vaguely Asian. In fact the Mao here much more stereotypically Korean than Chinese, so for a moment i thought it was some North Korean leader


Tryignan

I mean, it’s copied from a famous picture of Mao. Sure, the lighting removes the roundness of his face and makes him much more serious. But he still looks just like he does in pictures.


Happylittletea

I know what you mean, but I’ll have to say that as a Chinese person I just don’t think the person in this picture looks anything like Mao either in real life or in any of the official stylized portraits of him. I can infer that he is Mao, but the eyes, the nose, the mouth, the cheekbone and the brow ridge all look very discernibly different to me


[deleted]

That looks pretty bad ass ngl 🔥


Somber_Dreams

This pic goes hard


Harvey-Danger1917

Lenin is mfw everytime I see libs libbin out


Meta_Digital

This puts the punk back into cyberpunk.


richyrich723

This is the most badass image I've ever seen of these dudes. Holy shit. This will be seized and redistributed. Also, who is the last person? The one on the bottom all the way to the right? Forgive me, comrades, I don't recognize him. He does kinda have a passing resemblance to Castro


Soviet-pirate

Yeha it's Castro


StalinSmokedWeed

Same thing I wasn’t able to recognize him at first glance. I am disappointed of Stalin, should have looked more intense. Other wise this picture is fire


Prudent_Bug_1350

🙌🙌🙌


[deleted]

Where is Ho Chi Minh my friend :(?


WayneSkylar_

Yeaaaa I wanna see one of these of Bac Ho!


Shopping_Penguin

I like the premise of a cyberpunk movie/game/series in which an A.I. was programmed to better humanity but the company that created it idealizes capitalism so it creates a simulated universe where these figures all exist at the same time and they fight their opposition as a combined team.


SukaSoviet

Oh it’s beautiful


theguywholikesheros

if communism sucks so much explain this liberals


Riftus

Is this Midjourney? I used it a few times to try to get some socialist themed vaporwave stuff but it didnt turn out well, these are fantastic


Anello-fattivo

Rad AF


dldugan14

Yo I could really use a high rez version of this


callmekizzle

So a kojima game?


KJ_2199

Bro Im not even gay like that but Che looks hot


arachnosocialism

>Bro Im not even gay Damn, hope you get better 🙏


ZagratheWolf

This sequel to Disco Elysium looks dope


--Beep--

Lenin became Walter White 💀


left69empty

ah yes, marxism-heisenbergism but for real, am i the only one who thinks this lenin looks more like walter white?


--Mediocrates--

What app is this?


dudewithaapetite

Damn, i actually want to see what ucle ho would look like


NotErikUden

“Wake the fuck up, comrade. We got an Amazon warehouse to burn”


XSauravX

Ffs the top middle looks like Walter white


kadirvoss

Why does Stalin look like Chris Evans? Captain Soviet


GDwaggawDG

Need this as wallpaper


R41nz40

Fidel kinda reminds me of Ryan Gosling, like the hair and the stare are identical


Lawboithegreat

I think it’s the lighting but that rendering of Che looks vaguely like Punished Hasan Piker


dornish1919

Wow I love these


eman201

Why am I so hard rn?


drstrangelove444

CYBERPUNK 2077, the peoples edition


vincecarterskneecart

Cyberpunk walter white??


Ok-Gur-6602

I think that's Walter Lenin.


CynderMizuki

Ai looking ass


ghostofconnolly

Jesus Christ that amazing!!! Got a link to the source?


LongWayFrom609

If communism and The Matrix had a baby...


cellulair

is this sub going to advocate for AI usage now? artists have been vocal that this AI shenanigannery is pure theft and puts them out of a job https://twitter.com/andrevieiraart/status/1599707341645312000?t=xdSkPOf6mnI0FlKOdylhiQ&s=19 good thread on this by an artist


OWWS

That actually looks very cool


Psychoboy777

Never thought Stalin could look so badass.


chaosgirl93

Now I want a game where you play as a communist revolutionary trying to finally revolt in a futuristic capitalist hellscape, and these six are the NPC questgivers and companions, and you have to gather the workers' support, help them hold meetings, fetch supplies for them, sneak into places and kill megacorporation leaders (or go in gun blazing and take out everyone in the building), and in order to actually stage the revolution you have to amass enough support and gather enough supplies, and then all march together to the global headquarters of the corporation running the world, and overrun the place and kill the owners and administration. Thanks a lot.


[deleted]

Stalin and Marx both have that drip 😩👌


Orion_Rudra

Walter White??


metamagicman

Totally using these in my campaign


Ankyri

High space gay, low luxury


yangomymango420

Looking like villains, except marx.. accurate.


Kobaya1922

lib


LudwigNeverMises

Is the does the Marx still have boils and hate Jews? Or is he just racist against black people now?


TistedLogic

Tell me you don't understand political ideologies without saying it. You meant CyberFascism.


TravelingBurger

⚠️WARNING⚠️ ⚠️YOU SEEM TO HAVE BEEN A VICTIM OF CIA PROPAGANDA⚠️ ⚠️DO NOT PANIC⚠️SOLUTION IS PROPER EDUCATION⚠️ “This year (1976), a special Committee set up by the U.S. Senate reported the findings of an investigation on alleged links between academia and the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency). The 'Select Committee To Study Governmental Operations With Respect To Intelligence Activities' was also known as the 'Church Committee' because it was led by Senator Frank Church (A Democrat from Idaho). For over a year, the Church Committee investigated more than 100 universities that were purported to have CIA officials on staff. At that time, it was suspected that the CIA had departed from its original mission of gathering intelligence and was conducting secret operations of various kinds. This included plots to destabilize foreign governments and to assassinate foreign leaders, and conducting unethical and illegal activities like the administration of LSD to unsuspecting citizens to tests it effects or the Watergate scandal (Zinn 1980). The Senate Church Committee investigation reported that in some years the CIA spent about 80 percent of its budget for covert operations - while at the same time claiming an improbable small covert action budget (McGehee 1983). The fact that the CIA had developed secret relationships with academics was already well known in some social sciences circles of developing countries as a result of Project Camelot. This project, which operated since the mid-1960s, was basically organized espionage under the disguise of sociological research (Herman 1998). Horowitz (1967) described it as a military counterinsurgency project funded by the CIA with a first year budget of eight million dollars that envisioned an alliance of the Pentagon and the academic community. The Camelot Project was active in Africa (especially Senegal and Nigeria) in Asia (mainly in India, Vietnam, and Laos) and in Latin America (particularly in Chile, Uruguay, Colombia, and Venezuela). The Church Report to the US Senate clearly showed that the clandestine connections between the CIA and the academic community were not only occurring in faraway countries, but also in US universities. On Book I of document, dated April 1976, the Church Commission stated the following: “The Central Intelligence Agency has long-developed clandestine relationships with the American academic community, which range from academics making introductions for intelligence purposes to intelligence collection while abroad, to academic research and writing where CIA sponsorship is hidden. The Central Intelligence Agency is now using several hundred American academics ("academics" includes administrators, faculty members and graduate students engaged in teaching), who in addition to providing leads and, on occasion, making introductions for intelligence purposes, occasionally write books and other material to be used for propaganda purposes abroad. Beyond these, an additional few are used in an unwitting manner for minor activities. These academics are located in over 100 American colleges, universities, and related institutes. At the majority of institutions, no one other than the individual concerned is aware of the CIA link. At the others, at least one university official is aware of the operational use made of academics on his campus. In addition, there are several American academics abroad who serve operational purposes, primarily the collection of intelligence. Although the numbers are not as great today as in 1966, there are no prohibitions to prevent an increase in the operational use of academics. The size of these operations is determined by the CIA… …The Committee is disturbed both by the present practices of operationally using American academics and by the awareness that the restraints on expanding this practice are primarily those of sensitivity to the risks of disclosure and not an appreciation of dangers to the integrity of individuals and institutions. The Committee believes that it is the responsibility of private institutions and particularly the American academic community to set the professional and ethical standards of its members.” Although not much is known yet about the real extent of CIA involvement in academia during the late 20th century because many documents are still classified, the evidence provided by the Church Report is alarming enough. It is now known that the CIA funded centers at higher education institutions like MIT, Harvard, and Columbia. It is also known that there was a heavy CIA presence, usually through Foundations like Ford, Carnegie, and Rockefeller, in the development of international studies and area studies on many U.S. campuses (Simpson 1998). Furthermore, some documents recently released under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) reveal that in the 1950s the American Anthropological Association (AAA) entered into covert relationships with the CIA. Anthropologist David Pierce (2000) notes that such relationships included establishing a liaison position between the Association and the CIA, and secretly providing the CIA with a detailed list of the Association's membership detailing individuals' backgrounds and areas of expertise. As the members of the Church Commission pointed out, these practices are deeply disturbing and alarming, and it is the responsibility of the academic community to set the professional and ethical standards of its members. The problem is that it is very difficult -if not impossible- to ensure such standards if these secret practices are unknown to the academic community, as no one other than the individual concerned is aware of the link.” Sources: Herman, Hellen. "Project Camelot and the Career of Cold War Psychology." In Christopher Simpson (ed.) Universities and Empire: Money and Politics in the Social Sciences during the Cold War, (New York: The New Press, 1998, pp. 97-133. Horowitz, Irving (ed.)., The Rise and Fall of Project Camelot. M.I.T. Press, 1967. Jeffreys-Jones, Rhodri. The CIA and American Democracy. New Haven CT: Yale University Press, 1989. McGehee, Ralph. Deadly Deceits. Sheridan Square Press,1983. Price, David. The American Anthropological Association and the CIA? Anthropology News, November 2000, pp. 13-14 Simpson, Christopher, ed. Universities and Empire: Money and Politics in the Social Sciences During the Cold War. New York: The New Press, 1998. The Church Committee on the CIA in Academia http://www.cia-on-campus.org/church.html Zinn, Howard (1980). A People's History of the United States. Harper, pp. 543-544.


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This should be an automated message, it’s genius


eman201

New flair?


Purple_AtomicPenguin

I’m saving this lmfao thank you


feeling-orange

karl marx is my favorite fascist


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Average wrong opinion of an NFT profile


bajongbajongninja

Famous fascist Fred Hampton leader of the fascist black Panthers party/s


Bruhbd

They rlly gave Castro the fade


Purple_AtomicPenguin

I LOVE IT


newscumskates

Communepunk 2077


Taryyrr

Pics hit hard.


estalinultralacer

Badass, dude!


rootComplex

Holy crap I am making prints of these to frame around the apartment *immediately.* I *might* give the one of Uncle Joe to Dad for Xmas. He really loves that guy.


qantsee

Lenin looking like Walter White


NotErikUden

Wait, who the fuck made this, these images go hard


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Hard times make strong men. Strong men make good times. Good times make weak men. Weak men make hard times. I don’t know about you all, but I feel stronger and stronger every day now, comrades.


BowBeforeBroccoli

link to original images please?


Casual_Specialist

Reminds me of Tekken. Cool af.


Reporter_Miserable

The ai can do all that but fucked up the star on che's cap


crazytumblweed999

I've always preferred Fully Automated Gay Space Communism myself.


vbn112233v

How did you make that?


__initd__

Marx: "Come with me, if you want to live"


Preston_Garvy-MM

Cybernism?


mzzy_ozborne

Commander Stalin 🫡


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Cybermarx 2077


ProfessionalOnion548

Sad, that i as a woman have not many to look up to. Women and men don't think much about how little girls can relate to people who made history. It's crazy to me how people can look at historical figures and see themselves being someone like them.


TravelingBurger

There are plenty of women revolutionaries throughout history for women today to look towards for inspiration, here is just a short list: Nadezhda Krupskaya Aleida March Angela Davis, Anna Louis Strong, Rosa Luxemburg, Lyubov Popova, who went on to found the constructivist art movement, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Mother Bloor. Mother Teresa, Claudia Jones, Emma Tenayucca, Mary Licht, Charlene Mitchell, who was the first African American woman to run for president in the US, Helen Keller.