All You Have Is Ghosts From A Forgotten Past, A Dead Culture. Nostalgia Of A Rotting Carcass of American Capitalism.
I was inspired to write this article by Elizabeth who sports a “Don’t Tread on Me” flag as her profile picture, showing her ideological adherence to Libertarianism, a virulently anti-communist ideology. The user uses a whimsical video from a long forgotten America (perhaps the 1940s/50s/60).
I want to show in this article what Communists thought American society, as far back as the 1940s and 1950s, was a decadent, destructive and disgraceful society that produced a torrent of veritable anti-human filth and called it art.
From it’s revolting “abstract expressionists” to dysformed “jazz”. The favourite trick of the “alt-media” (95% who are knowingly or unknowingly State backed) is to blame the faults of capitalism on Communism so keep with the “least worst system”(TM).
Art and Socialism
Has anyone noticed any work of great art emerging from any Communist country? Russia used to produce the most transcendent music and literature the world has ever seen. Since 1917? Nothing. You cannot invert reality and produce anything of value.
This is a bold claim for someone coming from the United States, a brazenly barbaric culture that managed to produce the popular saying “USA is the only culture to have gone from Barbarism to decadence without civilisation inbetween.”
Consider an opposing view, by a Frenchman no less.
It is common knowledge that U.S. competition is strangling the British and ousting French cinema production.
One British member of parliament was quite right in speaking about a “veritable Niagara” of vulgarity, false sentimentalism, cynicism and pornography which distracts the attention of readers in Marshallised countries from the real America with its poverty, millions of unemployed, cultural backwardness, racial discrimination and its struggle against progressive science.
The dissemination of the pseudo-scientific Mendelian and Morgan “theories” in biology, the idealistic and metaphysical conceptions in physics, psychology and teaching and, in general, the propaganda of objectivism in science, formalism and abstraction in art, the spreading of the idealistic, decadent “theory” that literature and art must be divided from the people and from reality—all this goes hand in hand with the intensification of brutal police repressions against honest and patriotic-minded cultural workers, with the systematic deterioration of their living standards and invariable reductions in budget allocations for cultural needs. All this is done on the U.S. model and on its insistence. All this is tainted with cosmopolitanism. The real content of cosmopolitanism in the realm of culture is reaction and decadence of a neo-fascist character; it is the penetration into other countries of the well known barbaric culture which characterises imperialist America. As with the struggle for peace, for independence and against the colonising policy, the struggle for culture demands that cosmopolitan tendencies to be resolutely repulsed.(Georges Cogniot, Cosmopolitanism: Predatory Weapon Of Us Imperialism, 1950)
Socialist-Realist Art In the Soviet Union
The Soviet Union (ie Communists) produced far greater art than its capitalist enemies during the Cold War. This is perhaps so self evident that anyone with eyes can verify this for yourself. So if you’ve come under the sway of anti-communism – the ideology of capitalist countries – just go look at the pictures below and confirm what I’m saying with your own eyes.
In the Soviet Union, the Communists running that country produced the art style of Socialist-Realism.
The Communists argued that art, when a country and economy is ruled by the masses, is realist (ie realistic). The Working Class wanted to see their everyday lives reflected back in their art styles. Whilst when an economy is ruled by capitalism and the law of the jungle artists are oft too ashamed to depict society as it is and to please the class dictatorship they live under (ie bourgeois class), therefore they retreat into abstraction, decadence and filth.
The Soviet Union during it’s revolutionary period (before it began to liberalise the economy, particularly the Kosygin Reforms of 1965 which led to it’s full collapse in 1991) was full of realistic art works that bring a gentle joy to Workers in those countries. It was a joyful reminder of life as it was, warts and all.
Soviet Art
You’ll notice for instance the worn and broken flooring in the home of the first painting. Something the artist could easily have left out, improved or hidden in some way.
The artist chose not to. This was the period of rapid industrialisation of the Soviet Union. Mass building of homes all over the country and economic development providing labour for all. The country was brimming with optimism and looking to the future. The artist chose to depict reality as it was precisely because he was confident in the future. The same can be said of the injured/disabled soldier – who could just easily have been painted without either the injuries or the walking stick.
The same with the portrait of the ballerina by Gerasimov. He could’ve painted her in a finished, clean and perfect environment. It certainly would’ve made a better aesthetic painting. Instead we see a table in the mirror in the shot, looking a bit untidy and unsightful. Gerasimov was motivated to capture life as it was however. Not a fictional life that could be.
The artists did not feel like they needed to debase their art by “cleaning up” the rough edges of reality. American artists in the similar time period had no pretense about wanting to paint reality or even something that can be recognised. A similar phenomena is played out literature and movies. The Soviet union produced world class literature. I saw Maxim Gorkys wonderful Children of the Sun in threatre only two years ago in Dublin (a play only spoiled by the retarded anti-communist diatribe at the end by liberal cry babies). The beautiful writings of Konstantin Simonov were turned into incredible films. Mikhail Sholokhov wrote the masterpiece Quiet Flows The Don earning him the Stalin prize in 1941, the Lenin prize in 1960 and the Nobel prize in 1965.
As we shall see, they wanted to bare their ugliness to the world and declare it beauty.
We have paid a very high price for allowing the Americans to bare their ugly wretchedness to the world, which corrupts and stunts our youth and diminishes the horizon of human potential.
During the Soviet era practically every professional chess player and grandmaster was Soviet. The Soviets printed 3/5s of every book worldwide.Their level of maths was world class.
American “Art”
A similar process happened with the bourgeois revolutions that produced Liberalism and the victory of capitalism over Feudalism. The renaissance art showed a victorious Capitalist class that had triumphed over the feudal monarchs all over Europe.
Art had sunk into the mire as Feudalism held back economic production for parasitic familes and an outmoted mode of production. With it’s collapse the victorious capitalist class produced the renaissance;
Art we still venerate today.
Liberal revolutionaries destroyed the old system. Cutting the heads of Kings and Monarchies all over Europe. From the English Revolution to the French Revolution to the campaigns of Napolean that deposed Monarchies all over Europe and threw Feudalism into the dustbin of history.
The demand from this (progressive) capitalist class at the time was realistic art and during portraits they would demand their paintings be painted “warts and all”.
By 1945 however both the Europeans and Americans capitalist systems were fetters on productive forces. They now sought to hold back development of economies worldwide to keep their rotting, parasite monopolies and collecting rents.
‘We have about 50% of the world’s wealth but only 6.3% of its population…Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity without positive detriment to our national security.’ – George Kennan, architect of the Cold War
Welfare for the bourgeoisie.
They now sought to hold back development of the world economy to retain their parasite class status and prevent economic progress that would supplant their monopolies. This would be formalised in National Security Memorandum 200 which calls for depopulating the globe because “growing populations will place demands on US puppet states and overthrow US compradors and viceroys”.
Enter abstract art and jazz music.
The most popular American artists of the 1950s were Jackson Pollock and Willem De Kooning.
The feelings you get from these are ugly. The uglification of everything. The second picture of Willem De Kooning is particularly upsetting to view. We see a womans faces and multiple limbs extending under from it with what appear to be torrents of blood flowing out from it. After looking at this awful shite we can only wonder what disgraceful, disgusting society produced it and then elevated it to a position of public desire in the 1950s.
But we can go one further with American so-called “art” – it was State backed.
Just as the Soviets, an openly Socialist country ran by a Communist Party, declared itself quite openly for Socialist-Realism…. The USA secretly and connivingly declared itself for irrational abstract art.
Jackson Pollock was backed by the CIA and the financing of abstract art was seen as a weapon against the Soviets. So two countries had a formal backing of an art style… Except the Soviets declared this openly and with agreement with the people whilst the CIA pushed a horrible art style onto it’s people. By uglifying everything (as abstract expressionism did) they brutalised the American people and prepared them for another 7 decades of constant war, coups, genocides, US backed military juntas and the denial of progress.
This has gone hand in hand with turning the American working class into (literal) whore’s and prostitutes. Americans should reflect on who Only Fans has overtaken Apple and Nvidia (who at least are producing cutting edge products despite their backdoors for the NSA). (Times of India, How Only Fans Beat Nvidia and Apple to Become the Worlds Most Revenue Efficient Company)
For the economists, nothing is produced during prostitution. There is no tangible “thing” created at the end of it like a widget or a commodity. Instead a human being is being consumed in this process. As the West now includes prostitution and the drug market in its GDP it is cannibalising it’s own people. We need only look at the life expectancies of “adult entertainers” who usually die very young from drugs or suicide.
The State cannot provide an art style to a people you see as less than nothing but consumers. And as we can see, as long as the State exists (as long as there are classes that are divided for a class dictatorship) you will get a State backed art style either way.
It can be an open declaration like the Soviets or an underhand one like the USA.
If you want to turn the sons and daughters of a nation into prostitutes for the bourgeoisie you can’t provide an art style that respects human dignity and looks positively ahead to the future. What’s more the bourgeois class in USA have long been committed to killing off most of the population for their Malthusian desires as I’ve documented in many of my writings and my film, UNSEEN.
With all due respect Elizabeth, your country was exporting this filth round about the time your video of a quaint 1950s couple attempts to “harken back” to better times.
NATO-Stan Continue Their Disgusting Dehumanising Filth
Perhaps the best illustration of the reactionary nature of the filth coming out of NATO countries is their invasion and occupation of Afghanistan in 2001. Whilst occupying Afghanistan NATO tried to implant their cosmopolitan and decadent culture (which they oppress their own people with) into the culture of the Afghan people.
Here is a British woman explaining to a group of confused tribal Afghan women why a toilet placed on it’s side is “art”.
So this is in some ways the first piece of conceptual art.
Does anyone know what it is?
I don’t expect the ladies to know.
An artist called Marcel Duchamp, who’s very important in Western art, put this toilet in an art gallery a hundred years ago. It was a huge revolution”. (Clip from Adam Curtis’s Bitter Lake)
About the only true thing Elizabeth stated in her original article is
We have become a deeply repellent people.
Whilst stating
The left blames late-stage capitalism but in fact what we are facing is corporatism, with the ideology
But as we have seen the Americans have been pushing their filth long before “late-stage capitalism” gained popularity. The Communists (as shown above) were showing how USA was a disgusting, wretched society back in the 1940s and 1950s: the era now seen as the golden years by American apologists for capitalism and war.
Libertarians are like the Trotskyites of apologists for capitalism.
“It’s not real capitalism… capitalism is the fairy tale that exists in my mind”.
Modern DPRK
Modern DPRK remains a socialist country. Capitalist encirclement has dropped many of the Eastern bloc and rammed the liberalising method of the market down others throats. DPRK maintains a level of independence that few other countries have. (Seven countries on earth do not have a Rothschilds bank, one of them being the DPRK for example. A fact omitted by our right-leaning Rothschilds conspiracists that occupy a lot of the conspiracy side of the internet).
DPRK, still a revolutionary country, maintains socialist realism in art forms. I could rehash here some of the great composers, artists…the realistic style of the DPRK as I did for the Soviet Union but perhaps for another day.
But instead I’m just going to provide a video of northern Koreans forced to watch southern Koreans dance like a bunch of retards to Kpop. An American cultural influence that has seen southern Korean women in the puppet slave state of South Korea getting eyelid surgery to look more like Americans.
The Koreans from the north look with disgust at what has become of their own people who are occupied by the United States, in dignified traditional Korean dress.
I wonder what is going through their minds as they are forced to witness this depravity.
A Soviet premier once remarked
“When we were in Hollywood, they danced the cancan for us.
The girls who dance it have to pull up their skirts and show their backsides. They are good, honest actresses but have to perform that dance.
They are compelled to adapt themselves to the tastes of depraved people. People in your country will go to see it, but Soviet people would scorn such a spectacle. It is pornographic.
It is the culture of surfeited and depraved people.
Showing that sort of film is called freedom in this country.
Such “freedom” doesn’t suit us.
You seem to like the “freedom” of looking at backsides.
But we prefer the freedom to think, to exercise our mental faculties, the freedom of creative progress.”
Probably something like that.
