Oh! What a Lovely Centenary
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Below is the discussion so far. Feel free to add your own comments!Letter received by Editorial Committee:Outrage was expressed at the beginning of December over the New York Post decision to print a front page photo of a man pushed into an oncoming subway train and subsequently killed. December 2012 issue of the Socialist Standard saw fit to print a photograph of a number of dead bodies (War, Weapons and Water) and January 2013 printed what looks like a dead body (Oh! What a Lovely Centenary). We know capitalism can be barbaric but a propaganda journal for socialism should principally appeal to reason not emotion. It is time to adopt picture policies of sensitivity rather than sensationalism.DJW
I couldn't agree more.Much better to show pictures of socialist kittens and puppies, rather than the true horrific nature of capitalism.
Why not? The content of Junge Linke is occasionally published in an English-language periodical called Kittens with appropriate pictures.http://junge-linke.org/en/tag/kittensI seem to recall there's some good stuff in it and I could be wrong but I think they're libertarian Marxists.
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