RE: Random Thoughts
March 29, 2021 at 9:21 pm
(This post was last modified: March 29, 2021 at 9:30 pm by Rev. Rye.)
Well, technically, Marxism has a very distinct definition of private property. He draws a distinction between private property and personal property. Owning possessions, like, for instance, Soviet artworks, is personal property. Marx was okay with this. If, however, he owned a gallery to exhibit these artworks, and made most of the profit while the people who maintained the gallery just made whatever he could get away with paying them, then that would be private property, and the sort of thing Marx would consider worthy of abolition.
That said, I'm on the fence about how weird it is that Jordy's collecting and displaying Soviet art in his home. On the one hand, well, a lot of Soviet art is striking. It's memorable enough that a few months ago, this mural appeared on a building not too far from where I live:
That said, someone of his ideological leanings, what's the fucking point? If there was some juxtaposition of these interesting artworks and some photographs or relics of atrocities the USSR committed, I suppose it'd make sense. I'd probably own and display Nazi memorabilia, but only if it was counterbalanced with relics of the Holocaust (probably more photographs than actual artifacts for practical reasons), like "Oh, you think this Arno Breker sculpture looks nice? Well, look around, because the same people who brought him to prominence were also responsible for this," this being maybe photos from the death camps, or since I used a statue as my reference for Nazi art, I'd create a copy of the Unbowed Man sculpture at the Khatyn Massacre memorial, commemorating the moment Yuzif Kaminsky, the only surviving adult of Khatyn village after the Dirlewanger Brigade destroyed it, found his burned son Adam dying in his arms. But that doesn't seem to be there. It just looks like some weird posturing that doesn't actually say anything.
That said, I'm on the fence about how weird it is that Jordy's collecting and displaying Soviet art in his home. On the one hand, well, a lot of Soviet art is striking. It's memorable enough that a few months ago, this mural appeared on a building not too far from where I live:
That said, someone of his ideological leanings, what's the fucking point? If there was some juxtaposition of these interesting artworks and some photographs or relics of atrocities the USSR committed, I suppose it'd make sense. I'd probably own and display Nazi memorabilia, but only if it was counterbalanced with relics of the Holocaust (probably more photographs than actual artifacts for practical reasons), like "Oh, you think this Arno Breker sculpture looks nice? Well, look around, because the same people who brought him to prominence were also responsible for this," this being maybe photos from the death camps, or since I used a statue as my reference for Nazi art, I'd create a copy of the Unbowed Man sculpture at the Khatyn Massacre memorial, commemorating the moment Yuzif Kaminsky, the only surviving adult of Khatyn village after the Dirlewanger Brigade destroyed it, found his burned son Adam dying in his arms. But that doesn't seem to be there. It just looks like some weird posturing that doesn't actually say anything.
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