Posted on 08/14/2010 10:43:19 AM PDT by Big Bureaucracy
ping
How RECENT was their resent artwork? /s
It’s hard to kill communication when the other party refuses to communicate.
FreedonWorks is having an 8-27 rally? Did someone clear that with Glenn Beck, he might miss making a buck.
Thanks for the correction!
The use of the fist in posters started with the Boxer Rebellion in northern China in the late 1800s or early 1900s IIRC.
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Interesting..... the Boxer Rebellion got its name from Western translations of the insurgent group’s name, “Righteous Harmonious Fists”.
But the clenched fist salute has been a Communist trademark since, when, the Russian Revolution?
Anyway, what’s it doing here in America in political posters? This isn’t 1969. But for some (ahem, ahem) it’s never stopped being 1969. Won’t name names of the usual suspects.
LOL. There are several but that was the one I found humorous.
No correction to you. Just thought it was funny.
The only thing I can think of is that we're using their own symbolism on them? Taunting them with it?
As a non-native English speaker I learn every day, thanks for the help.
‘The only thing I can think of is that we’re using their own symbolism on them? Taunting them with it?’
It could be, but it is not apparent from first impression.
Interesting tidbit of info. Thanks.
You think the fists are about racial relations? On a tax-payer’s rally?
I know that the fist is a leftist, communist image that includes the feminist use of it and the black power use of it.
From Wiki:
“The raised fist (also known as the clenched fist) is a salute and logo most often used by left-wing activists, such as: Marxists, anarchists, socialists, communists, pacifists, trade unionists, and black nationalists. The raised fist is usually regarded as an expression of solidarity, strength or defiance. It dates back to the salute of Rotfrontkämpferbund, a paramilitary organization of the Communist Party of Germany before the WWII.”
“Groups that have used the symbol
Official symbol of Socialist International.Albanian National Liberation Front
American Indian Movement
Anarchist Black Cross
Black Panther Party
Earth First!
Women’s Liberation
Food Not Bombs
International Brigades
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Italian Radical Party
Jewish Defense League
Kach
Labour Representation Committee (2004)
National Equality March
Otpor
Rage Against the Machine
Raised Fist
Rise Against
Red Front Fighters’ League
Saor Éire (1967-1975)
Socialist International
Socialist Party of England and Wales
Socialist Workers Party (Britain)
Socialist Youth Front
United Farm Workers
Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front
[edit] See also
1968 Olympics Black Power salute
Protests of 1968
Lal Salam “
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