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Agitprop in the 21st Century: Memes as transgressive art, education & political weapons (en)

Agitprop in the 21st Century: Memes as transgressive art, education & political weapons (en)

re:publica 17 - All Sessions vor 9 Jahren

Like newspapers, radio and television, the Internet can be used as a tool for opinion-shaping in the hands of either the left or the right. Two administrators from Socialist Meme Caucus discuss philosophical, artistic & political challenges in using socia

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Edmund Schluessel, David Redelberger Socialist Meme Caucus (SMC)
was founded in 2011 by Trotskyists and has since become one of the
preeminent multi-tendency left meme pages on Facebook, boasting
55,000 members and inspiring countless other pages. SMC prides
itself on combining inclusivess and education with political &
intellectual clarity from an explicitly revolutionary socialist
perspective. While founded for comic purposes, SMC-launched
campaigns have received worldwide coverage and disrupted the work
of UKIP, the United Kingdom's right-populist party, and discussions
by SMC have led to left networking & recruitment around the
world. In this discussion, two content creators for SMC talk about
their artistic inspirations and connections to the artistic history
of the radical left, about the educational possibilities and
limitations of social media, and about how to balance the line
between humor and political consciousnes.