In my own experience, most people over there just don't talk about it. It's a bit taboo. In 3 months, I've heard one girl refer to the communist era - in a derogatory way. If I remember correctly, we were advised beforehand not to bring up the subject.
 
I personally tend to believe that young people who fall for socialism and communism are mostly ignorant - and the majority of the time, they come from families where money has never really been a concern. They reach that age and want to re-invent the world...
 
College = pot = socialism/communism. It's one of the few constants in this universe.
 
But I just broke the TOS. :/

Rain
In my own experience, most people over there just don't talk about it. It's a bit taboo. In 3 months, I've heard one girl refer to the communist era - in a derogatory way. If I remember correctly, we were advised beforehand not to bring up the subject.
 
I personally tend to believe that young people who fall for socialism and communism are mostly ignorant - and the majority of the time, they come from families where money has never really been a concern. They reach that age and want to re-invent the world...
 
College = pot = socialism/communism. It's one of the few constants in this universe.
 
But I just broke the TOS. :/

i don't know if that is a blatant violation of TOS.  maybe gray area.  We were not discussing communism and socialism so much as discussing how youth wear symbols of such.  in any case, i agree that rarely are such displays much deeper than "that's a cool shirt and my friends are wearing it"

Rain
In my own experience, most people over there just don't talk about it. It's a bit taboo. In 3 months, I've heard one girl refer to the communist era - in a derogatory way. If I remember correctly, we were advised beforehand not to bring up the subject.
 
I personally tend to believe that young people who fall for socialism and communism are mostly ignorant - and the majority of the time, they come from families where money has never really been a concern. They reach that age and want to re-invent the world...
 
College = pot = socialism/communism. It's one of the few constants in this universe.
 
But I just broke the TOS. :/

In all honesty you will find that there's an overwhelming number of people who are either "communists" or rabid anti-communists who all have one thing in common - none of them have actually ever read Marx (or Adam Smith for that matter).

Yeah, lots of power mad dinosaurs on both sides trying to ignite a new cold war. It's very disappointing after seeing it collapse when I was very young, enjoying its absence as a teen and young man and now seeing it creep back into the general psyche of the world (our current PM here in Canuckerland is all OVER this kind of crap).
 
Sad really. We never learn do we?
 
/definitely breaking the TOS
//sorry

drewfx1

Rain
In my own experience, most people over there just don't talk about it. It's a bit taboo. In 3 months, I've heard one girl refer to the communist era - in a derogatory way. If I remember correctly, we were advised beforehand not to bring up the subject.
 
I personally tend to believe that young people who fall for socialism and communism are mostly ignorant - and the majority of the time, they come from families where money has never really been a concern. They reach that age and want to re-invent the world...
 
College = pot = socialism/communism. It's one of the few constants in this universe.
 
But I just broke the TOS. :/

In all honesty you will find that there's an overwhelming number of people who are either "communists" or rabid anti-communists who all have one thing in common - none of them have actually ever read Marx (or Adam Smith for that matter).

Adam Smith the Scot or the congressman?? lol

dubdisciple
 
Adam Smith the Scot or the congressman?? lol

 
The Scot. 

Figured that but since the latter is congressman in my district I would ask.

I think you are right dubdisciple about kids wearing symbols they don't really know the full meaning and/or implication of. They're completely ignorant of history. I should think the schools have a lot to do with it. The horrors of the Nazis and the Holocaust are drummed into everyone, but nowhere near as many people know about the Stalin's regime of slaughter despite the fact that many times more people were killed. Uneducated kids wearing this stuff is one thing. But many years ago back in the UK I remember flicking through the TV channels and happening across Children's BBC on BBC1. There was a kid's TV presenter doing the little bit on camera in between each show, all fun stuff. And he was wearing a bright read CCCP sweatshirt. On kid's TV! I've met grown adults who have been told what went on in the USSR but deny it as "western propaganda" (despite the Khrushchev report). These are the same idiots who were invited to visit Potemkin villages back in communist era and came back to the US full of glowing reports about how marvelous it all was. 
 
When people get all starry eyed about something, it's very hard to talk them out of it even when you put the facts in front of their nose. I used to get riled up by Che Guevara t-shirts to the point of confronting people in the street. I once asked a black guy on a subway platform how on earth he could wear a Che t-shirt after the racist remarks Guevara made about black people in "The Motorcycle Diaries." He denied such remarks were made. I assured him they were, and he said how strange it was that he had read the whole book from cover to cover and can't remember any such thing. Another time I confronted an old Che-sporting hippie in the street and let him in on some pretty juicy facts about the man. He said "wow, I genuinely didn't know." 

I know this thread is about good or bad taste t-shirt logo design, and I agree with the sentiments being expressed, but please try to hold off the politics...

sharke
 
 
But this Cobain suicide note design...yes it's in poor taste but then again people are quite comfortable wearing crosses to symbolize the thing that Jesus was nailed to, is that really any worse? Maybe in a few hundred years time, this suicide note will be considered some kind of holy document. 

Well said.
 
It's just a good job himself wasn't drowned. They'd all be walking round with a goldfish bowl hanging round their necks.