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| "The Meaning of the Hitler Salute: Little man asks for big gifts. Motto: Millions Stand Behind Me!" |
The front cover of the Arbeiter-Illustrierte Zeitung (Workers Illustrated Newspaper), October 1932.
Montage by John Heartfield (1891–1968).
From the website of the The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which offers the following commentary :
"Heartfield published his political photomontages, many of which savagely satirized the Nazi regime, in the Arbeiter-Illustrierte Zeitung. In this widely disseminated workers' newspaper (500,000 readers in 1931), the often deceptively realistic montages appeared cheek-by-jowl with straight documentary photographs. In this montage, Heartfield specifically links Hitler's electoral success with his courting of wealthy industrialists from the Rhineland. More generally, he gives pictorial punch to the commonplace idea that money fuels political power by implying that the Nazi salute is in fact a plea for cash."
Is it accurate to characterise the Tea Party in the same way? Amongst numerous exposés of Tea Party funding see Australian filmmaker Taki Oldham's recently released documentary, "(Astro) Turf Wars", on how corporate America is faking a grassroots revolution. In Huffington Post. NB I haven’t watched the film myself.
See also Is the Tea Party fascism?
Montage by John Heartfield (1891–1968).
From the website of the The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which offers the following commentary :
"Heartfield published his political photomontages, many of which savagely satirized the Nazi regime, in the Arbeiter-Illustrierte Zeitung. In this widely disseminated workers' newspaper (500,000 readers in 1931), the often deceptively realistic montages appeared cheek-by-jowl with straight documentary photographs. In this montage, Heartfield specifically links Hitler's electoral success with his courting of wealthy industrialists from the Rhineland. More generally, he gives pictorial punch to the commonplace idea that money fuels political power by implying that the Nazi salute is in fact a plea for cash."
Is it accurate to characterise the Tea Party in the same way? Amongst numerous exposés of Tea Party funding see Australian filmmaker Taki Oldham's recently released documentary, "(Astro) Turf Wars", on how corporate America is faking a grassroots revolution. In Huffington Post. NB I haven’t watched the film myself.
See also Is the Tea Party fascism?
Hmm, interesting. As I was reading the first paragraph I was minded to think of your previous post about The Tea Party, and I thought, 'hmm, maybe The Tea Party have more in common with fascism than I said in my comment on the previous blog post'!
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