See title. I’d be interested to see someone like Rosa Luxembourg in the lineup. All women is good too but if there’s a mix I’d like that.
Not for anything important, just curious.
If anyone can unite communists and radicalise liberals it’s Marge Thatcher.
If they attack you personally you might be a shit person Mrs Thatcher.
I haven’t seen a version like that, but who’d you guys put there?
Edit: specifically women
Definitely Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya. She was an absolute workhouse and often overlooked lynchpin in the early Soviet Union.
I suppose one of the problems is that those five heads are kind of the well known ‘theory giants’. And because of the history (the latter three also led the biggest revolutions and succeeded), it’s hard to think of equivalents, regardless of gender. But that feels like a self-fulfilling prophecy. By looking at these five, we don’t see the others.
Luxemburg wrote enough to join them, but when I think of other women radicals, I mainly think of activists like Pankhurst, Afeni Shakur, and Coretta Scott King. As for other kinds of writers, there’s e.g. Silvia Federici and Angela Davis and others, but they’re kind of academic, so it’s not the same as revolutionary ‘leaders’ who also wrote theory.
But that still seems like the wrong way to view it as there are people like Kolontai (first woman cabinet member in the world, iirc), and the ‘big’ revolutions happened at a time when patriarchy left little room for women to lead and write. Communists were better at this than their liberal contemporaries, but still not great. That might have changed now?
Idk, I feel like there must be others who I just don’t know about, but who I should know about. I’m kind of hoping that someone tells me I’m wrong and tells me to read some XYZ, articulating what I just can’t quite explain (or can’t explain without resorting to sexism, which I suspect might be in this comment).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khertek_Anchimaa-Toka
I am always quite inspired thinking of Khertek Anchimaa-Toka. First non-royal female head of state. Helped spearhead the eradication of illiteracy in Tannu Tuva. Admirably assisted the Soviet people against the Nazi invaders. Helped Tannu Tuva join the Soviet Union. She seemed like an amazing person.
Impressive.
Gonzalo, of course!
/s
I’d probably put someone like Kim-Il-Sung considering that he contributed so much to Marxist theory in the DPRK.
But as for women I do have to agree with the poster that no one deserves that spot more than Rosa Luxemburg.
Shoutout Kim Il Sung fr
I had to clarify in my comment that I wanted to know which women you’d put there haha
Vilma Espín
Mandatory Kim Jong-Suk appreciation post:
Were Mauser C96’s common sidearms for North Korean officers? I understand the Nationalist Chinese having a few that they may have gotten from Germany in the 30’s, but seeing them in North Korea is a bit interesting!
Like the other weapons seem fairly reasonable like the Arisaka or Type 99 LMG which were probably taken from the Japanese, or the PPSH from the Soviets, but the Mauser is uniquely strange.
Yep, that’s a good question. I’ve only really seen Kim Jong-Suk depicted with a Mauser, so maybe it was a personal thing? I believe that the Browning M1900 was a much more common side arm in Korea at the time (An Jung Gun used one to assassinate Ito Hirobumi).
