Minimum Security by Stephanie McMillan

Minimum Security

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  1. starfighter441

    starfighter441 said, 11 months ago

    Not certain why, but these images look vaguely familiar.

  2. duccio

    duccio said, 11 months ago

    The Czarist Cossacks and the massacre on the Odessa Steps.

  3. Teo128

    Teo128 said, 11 months ago

    Fantozzi’s tought about this…

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib_qqj6Pc2Q

  4. Ira Nayman

    Ira Nayman said, 11 months ago

    No story of rebellion against capitalist oppression is complete without a Battleship Potemkin reference…

  5. Christinecedar

    Christinecedar said, 11 months ago

    Powerful artwork Stephanie!

  6. Ms. Ima

    Ms. Ima said, 11 months ago

    We all know how communism ends.

  7. joe waskiewicz

    joe waskiewicz said, 11 months ago

    Awww.. dith thou reap what thou sowed? This one looks like a Goya painting.

  8. Stephanie McMillan

    Stephanie McMillan said, 11 months ago

    I’m glad a couple people caught this one. Only 3 people wrote me about the one on Wednesday, which was “Red Detachment of Women.”

  9. duccio

    duccio said, 11 months ago

    @

    Steps refers to the Odessa staircase where this massacre in “Battleship Potempkin” occurs and which Stephanie has pictured in this strip of Minimum Security. The Steppes is a vast region in Eurasia of grasslands and savannas. You should go see the movie – it’s a top classic of cinema and should not be missed.

  10. Night-Gaunt49

    Night-Gaunt49 said, 11 months ago

    @Pete Rogan

    And in former Communist China (now becoming fascist) they were hunted down and disappeared. Either dead or as good as. No this will not be televised.

  11. starfighter441

    starfighter441 said, 11 months ago

    Errr…just what is the difference between communism and fascism, seem to be two sides of the same coin to me.

  12. Ms. Ima

    Ms. Ima said, 11 months ago

    I miss the old days when both sides got guns and shot at each other until the last man standing was the winner. Now we remotely kill with drones and build nukes for scorched earth destruction. I usually cheer for the main characters but here they have turned into bloodthirsty murderers. Is this the end of the strip?

  13. chassimmons

    chassimmons said, 11 months ago

    @Ima: actually, in olden days, it was an unusual battle in which two sides “shot at each other until the last man …”. About the only example I know of an attack in which neither side broke and ran was the “bloody angle” at Spotsylvania in the US Civil War. A very rare event.
    I agree with your unhappiness about the activities of our heroes. Of course, we don’t have to think of this as representing McMillan’s own ideas of how to go about things. She’s not showing it to be a brilliant success, that’s for sure.

  14. Stephanie McMillan

    Stephanie McMillan said, 11 months ago

    @starfighter441

    @Starfighter441 — They are completely different. Fascists use nationalist scapegoating and repression to divide and demoralize the working class so that a more openly predatory form of capitalism can remain in power. Communism is classless society, and the road to it requires the unity of all the oppressed classes internationally, led by the working class (the ones directly exploited by capitalist social relations). So far, no communist society has existed. China is obviously capitalist — one look at a factory making iPhones will confirm that. The Soviet Union for most of its existence was a state-capitalist system (with profit, rather than human need, in command of production).

  15. Stephanie McMillan

    Stephanie McMillan said, 11 months ago

    …but just because the revolutions in China and the Soviet Union were undermined and ultimately defeated (turned into their opposite) does not mean that liberation is impossible. A toddler has to fall down a lot of times while learning to walk.

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