Nothing to see here, just a particularly horrifying map-poster for the MoTF contest. May it cause you nightmares as it does me.
Any questions, suggestions or whatever else, feel free to ask or point out.
TO ALL THE WORKERS, TOILERS, AND OPPRESSED PEOPLES, MEN AND WOMEN OF COLOUR LIVING IN THE IMPERIALIST TERRITORIES OCCUPIED BY THE REGIME OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A MESSAGE FROM EUGENE R. MAXWELL, SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE WORKER EMANCIPATION COALITION
Comrades, joyous news arrive from across the Pacific Ocean: after the withdrawal of American imperialist forces from East Asia, its imperial ambitions broken by, among other factors, the fierce and permanent resistance of our workers' movement, weakening its foundations of aggression from within, our comrades of the People's Republic of China, led by Chairman Jiang Qing, have at last liberated the island of Taiwan from the warlord regime of the Chiang Dynasty, abolished its decadent American puppet state and fulfilled the War of Liberation started by Chairman Mao and the Chinese People's Liberation Army. The American forces in the counterrevolutionary island were taken as prisoners of the anti-imperialist campaign.
With Taiwan liberated, the comrades of the People's Liberation Army joined forces with the Korean People's Army, led by Supreme Leader Kim Il-Sung, Father of the who advanced against the reactionary forces occupying the south of the Peninsula, now without the support of their American overlords to defend them. Seoul fell within days, and, in a glorious triumph, the workers of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea rose up against the decadent ways of the Korean bourgeoisie, the taint of American decadence that permeated their entire society, and rid their land of the deviant ways of capitalism and bourgeois excess. After the fall of Seoul, the victorious People's Army started its Southern March, liberating the workers of Daejon, Daegu and Busan, the largest cities in the south, and purging with their full support the oppressive decadence of the Korean bourgeoisie and the remaining elements of American cultural degradation upon the Korean people.
Today, the last pockets of resistence of the reactionary regime in the South, abandoned by their American patrons, are falling. Soon Korea too will be unified, and joy will reign for a thousand years in Asia. A thousand flowers will blossom as the decadence of capitalism is cleansed from the face of the Earth.
And now, comrades, I say to you, it is time that, inspired by the great triumphs of our Asian comrades, and taking in our hearts the lesson of Chairman Mao, that we too continue the struggle to defeat the imperialist beast once and for all. Imperialism doesn't sleep; it doesn't rest until it either takes over the Earth or is killed by the people. Today is the day to ensure it is the latter. Today is the day to march against the forces of oppression. Today is the day to destroy America!
So... My idea was to do a reverse Autumn of Nations, with the United States's alliance being the one falling. I didn't want to get too into why exactly that came to be, so I'm going to avoid having to answer that question, but I left some clues around. Anyway, after considering a few different places, I found the poster that serve as frame for the map and I liked the idea of making a poster-map with those elements so much that I went for Korea.
Then... I went on a dark turn. I do that a lot, now that I think about it. Basically I just thought that this poster needed to be done by just the absolute worst type of tankie group out there. And considering it depicted a North Korean invasion of South Korea, there was enough room for that. So, if all the mentions to "excesses", "decadence" and whatever else make you feel uncomfortable, it's because you are supposed to fear the worst in those. I didn't flesh out the Worker Emancipation Coalition entirely, but they're there to represent the very worst among that particular specter of politics.
Anyway, I hope you like the map. May it terrify you as much as it does to me.
Any questions, suggestions or whatever else, feel free to ask or point out.
TO ALL THE WORKERS, TOILERS, AND OPPRESSED PEOPLES, MEN AND WOMEN OF COLOUR LIVING IN THE IMPERIALIST TERRITORIES OCCUPIED BY THE REGIME OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A MESSAGE FROM EUGENE R. MAXWELL, SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE WORKER EMANCIPATION COALITION
With Taiwan liberated, the comrades of the People's Liberation Army joined forces with the Korean People's Army, led by Supreme Leader Kim Il-Sung, Father of the who advanced against the reactionary forces occupying the south of the Peninsula, now without the support of their American overlords to defend them. Seoul fell within days, and, in a glorious triumph, the workers of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea rose up against the decadent ways of the Korean bourgeoisie, the taint of American decadence that permeated their entire society, and rid their land of the deviant ways of capitalism and bourgeois excess. After the fall of Seoul, the victorious People's Army started its Southern March, liberating the workers of Daejon, Daegu and Busan, the largest cities in the south, and purging with their full support the oppressive decadence of the Korean bourgeoisie and the remaining elements of American cultural degradation upon the Korean people.
Today, the last pockets of resistence of the reactionary regime in the South, abandoned by their American patrons, are falling. Soon Korea too will be unified, and joy will reign for a thousand years in Asia. A thousand flowers will blossom as the decadence of capitalism is cleansed from the face of the Earth.
And now, comrades, I say to you, it is time that, inspired by the great triumphs of our Asian comrades, and taking in our hearts the lesson of Chairman Mao, that we too continue the struggle to defeat the imperialist beast once and for all. Imperialism doesn't sleep; it doesn't rest until it either takes over the Earth or is killed by the people. Today is the day to ensure it is the latter. Today is the day to march against the forces of oppression. Today is the day to destroy America!
So... My idea was to do a reverse Autumn of Nations, with the United States's alliance being the one falling. I didn't want to get too into why exactly that came to be, so I'm going to avoid having to answer that question, but I left some clues around. Anyway, after considering a few different places, I found the poster that serve as frame for the map and I liked the idea of making a poster-map with those elements so much that I went for Korea.
Then... I went on a dark turn. I do that a lot, now that I think about it. Basically I just thought that this poster needed to be done by just the absolute worst type of tankie group out there. And considering it depicted a North Korean invasion of South Korea, there was enough room for that. So, if all the mentions to "excesses", "decadence" and whatever else make you feel uncomfortable, it's because you are supposed to fear the worst in those. I didn't flesh out the Worker Emancipation Coalition entirely, but they're there to represent the very worst among that particular specter of politics.
Anyway, I hope you like the map. May it terrify you as much as it does to me.
