Word: stalinism
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...that if you're not with this, you're evil, and both sides use this. It's a demonizing tactic, it's cheap and easy, and it's a way to gather votes in an emotional way. It's Huey Long. It's Adolf Hitler. It's Joseph Stalin...
...Joseph Stalin invent modern marketing? That's the thesis of a new show at Frankfurt's Schirn Kunsthalle, which argues that the techniques the dictator used to promote communism in the 1930s presage those now used to sell products throughout the free world. Long before the creative directors of Western ad agencies and shortly before Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, Stalin understood how to use images to mold public opinion. "It was mass marketing," says Boris Groys, co-curator of Dream Factory Communism - the Visual Culture of the Stalin Era, at the Schirn through early January. "The difference was that...
...right, not just the son of old-school lion Kingsley Amis. But as any Martin Amis fan knows, the London literary world seethes with vicious jealousy, so when one of its celebs stumbles, the rest of the pack attacks. Last year, Amis' nonfictional study of Josef Stalin, Koba the Dread, caused more than a few critics to conclude that the once invincible writer had begun to lose the plot. His publishers added to the fury this year by refusing to let reviewers see Yellow Dog unless they signed a vow of silence until it is safely in bookstores; some took...
...LINE OF DIALOGUE from An Evening with Joe?Stalin the Musical, now playing at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
...Orwell, who died in 1950, never shrank from the big stuff. "The three great subjects of the twentieth century were imperialism, fascism and Stalinism," writes Christopher Hitchens in his wonderful book Why Orwell Matters. Those were Orwell's topics, and he was right on all of them: able to pierce the hypocrisy of imperial adventures, to warn of the deathly appeal of fascism, and - when many were in thrall to the supposed achievements of the Soviet Union - to state baldly that Stalin was a "disgusting murderer." It is because Orwell was unflinching in his opposition to all the totalitarianisms...