Pop culture of a Communist 21st century

The workers of the world have overthrown every last government, king, queen and President. Nations and organised religion no longer exist, and society is moving in a direction where people are far more accepted. There is no more money and noone owns land. Society goes from greedy to altruistic.

What would the pop culture of this new and free world be like?
 
The workers of the world have overthrown every last government, king, queen and President. Nations and organised religion no longer exist, and society is moving in a direction where people are far more accepted. There is no more money and noone owns land. Society goes from greedy to altruistic.

What would the pop culture of this new and free world be like?

Sounds like a rather rose-tinted, idealistic view of Communism.
 
The workers of the world have overthrown every last government, king, queen and President. Nations and organised religion no longer exist, and society is moving in a direction where people are far more accepted. There is no more money and noone owns land. Society goes from greedy to altruistic.

What would the pop culture of this new and free world be like?

My spidey sense tells me that you are a pro-communist, which isn't a bad thing, just obvious...
 
I don't think eliminating money is practicable; the only Communist regime that even tried it in the long run was the Khmer Rouge...

Pop culture would likely resemble the Soviet Union, with some good films but rampant historical revisionism and none too subtle propaganda. Music would be more instrumental or mass singing, less individual celebrities. Generally, there would be less diversity in it, as the state would manage it as well as everything else.
 
I guess it'd be something like the pop-culture in Tito's Yugoslavia - one of the more relaxed communist regimes - which had thriving pop-music scene, for example: even if a lot of the songs made were about Tito.
 
Sounds like a rather rose-tinted, idealistic view of Communism.

Sheesh. No kidding. Maybe this should be in the ASB forum. It sounds like something from Lennon's "Imagine." When I first read it I assumed the poster was being sarcastic, but...

Maybe if we had robots to keep us hopped up on "Ecstacy" constantly we'd be able to create the "New Socialist Man," otherwise people on the collective farms and factories would still be assholes to each other, just like in the Capitalist world.

Look to the 1960s Hippie communes of the USA if you wanna see how all this would turn out (basic synopsis: people on the communes became assholes to each other, and they broke apart).
 
Pop culture would likely resemble the Soviet Union, with some good films but rampant historical revisionism and none too subtle propaganda.
I don't think there would be more historical revisionism in movies than in Hollywood OTL. If anything, it will be clumsier and less subtle than "Red Scare" (mebad, Red Dawn).

Music would be more instrumental or mass singing, less individual celebrities.
Celebrity - I do agree. Soviet had popular performers, but none close to Madonna's or Jackson fame. I'm not sure about character, images of columns of proletariat marching and singing International are as truthful as images of black slaves labouring under whip of white masters. Both were truth sometimes, someplaces, none were omnipresent.

Generally, there would be less diversity in it, as the state would manage it as well as everything else.
You hit the nail here. As art would be governed by octogenarian and septuagenarians through budget and cenzorship, art will be much more uniform and progress will be much slower (jazz became universally accepted in OTL USSR only in 1960s and commie authorities never really accepted rock).
 
The workers of the world have overthrown every last government, king, queen and President. Nations and organised religion no longer exist, and society is moving in a direction where people are far more accepted. There is no more money and noone owns land. Society goes from greedy to altruistic.

What would the pop culture of this new and free world be like?

Do you even know what communism is? What you just described is not communism, it's a form of anarchism.
 
Not being an asshole and being a socialist/communist have nothing to do with each other.

We can have a communist world where people are assholes. Or a capitalist world where there are very few assholes.
 
I think your slightly confused given that in an anarchist society there would be mass decentralisation so it would vary from commune to commune
 
It would be pretty underdeveloped place. A-holes are ones who drive development. Most of successfull capitalist are a=holes, or they behave like ones in their dealings.

Of course, most successful Communists have been arseholes as well. Or military men, or most other groups. Arseholeness sometimes appears linked to competence.
 
Most competent people are assholes but very few assholes are actually competent. I don't think being an asshole makes you more competent, but the egoism and swagger from being competent can make you an asshole.

Take Japanese society for instance, capitalist, successful but very polite.
 
Most competent people are assholes but very few assholes are actually competent. I don't think being an asshole makes you more competent, but the egoism and swagger from being competent can make you an asshole.

Take Japanese society for instance, capitalist, successful but very polite.

There's always the problem of causality. Then again, there are mental handicaps such as Asperger's that would make you smart, but not very socially graceful...
 
*Is an anarchist-communist*

Hmph. Despite some writings which he latere partially recanted and that were taken out of context, there is little to connect the actual communist movement with the so called "anarcho-communist" movement. Anarcho-communists ignore a crucial phase of the adoption of "pure communism", that being the dictatorship of the proleteriat, rather adopting a ridicolously idealistic view of the world.

But what do I know, I'm a capitalist pig. Nonetheless, I will not answer the question, for a world with anarcho-communism would require such radical changes to history/the human condition/the world that I could not begin to speculate what kind of pop culture would arise.
 
(Just to lighten things up a bit)
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Stario:
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