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Deltasquid posted:A late reply, and I'm not an expert on French culture by any means, but considering another newspaper just made this as a homage to Charlie Hebdo: Finally a proper homage.
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Guildencrantz posted:It's been argued that this actually contributed to its decline and fall. The system kept a well-read, critical intelligentsia that was needed to mainain cultural and technological output, gave them decent privileges and held them up to the rest of society as People Who Know Their poo poo. The intelligentsia as a class, however, naturally tend to care about issues like free speech, political liberty and the notion of a rationally organized society, and thus over time became increasingly critical of the regime. In late communism it was pretty much a given that the intelligentsia was a "suspect element", but by that time it had made those cultures very focused on veiled social criticism, satire, clever ways to circumvent censorship, interest in "forbidden" works and other things that are bad for an oppressive power structure. I've heard artists and producers in the occupied eastern european countries especially loved to use their medium to criticise and mock the Soviets. They had to be very careful and subtle, though, since everything was thoroughly screened.
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Flowers For Algeria posted:Turns out this cover is not at all a homage in its intent, but rather meant as an insult. It comes from the adepts of an extreme-right guru called Alain Soral. Yeah, when thinking about it later, I had a feeling it might have been meant in earnest. It's hard to get the point of a lot of the surrounding stuff unless you understand the french. Broken Cog fucked around with this message at 16:53 on Jan 12, 2015 |
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Bob le Moche posted:You're absolutely right that this is meant as an insult, but do you have any source for the idea that it's coming from Alain Soral's followers? Everything about it to me points to the opposite, that it's coming from the radical anticolonial left who are pissed about Charlie Hebdo's hypocrisy and pseudo-leftism. Edit: I saw your edit. Sorry.
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Luigi Thirty posted:Oh hey, a 18,000-person anti-Islam march in Germany in response to the Charlie Hebdo stuff. Apparently Muslims are "not capable of democracy" and it's only a matter of time until Muslims It's the same group that has been going for months. They'd find an excuse anyway.
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Randler posted:The East got proper hosed after unification (Treuhand! A question, since I assume you are from Germany. How is the industry infrastructure in the east compared to the west? I was talking with a German acquaintance of me some time ago, and he said that the reason east Germany is so much worse off than the west was because the Soviets shipped off any heavy machinery and industrial equipment they could find, and the east never really recovered from that after the wall fell.
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) and has noticeable demographic problems. And while some parts are actually pulling ahead compared to other states, the East gets a first taste of bad economic developements all the time.