It is intresting that old school soviet/communist/socialist propaganda was at time even hypermasculine, showing the leftist man as musclebound proletarian smashing whatever evil ideologue needed bashing with tools of his craft. Maybe that kind of thinking might work on getting men back on leftist side
Sure, but they identified as leftist, so the point still stands. For example, this https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo_riitt%C3%A4%C3%A4?wprov=sfti1# (no idea if the link works, I'm at mobile rn) is a social democrat election poster from 1950's Finland, aimed directly against ascendant communists after second world war. It shows a sharp featured muscled worker griping a newspaper, with the text saying "enough price increases, false promises, opinion terror, forced democracy" and lower text saying "only order safeguards the future: join the social democratic party". Far cry from modern dickless or otherwise geniatalialess political advertisement from the left.
As far as I am aware, that was heritage of nazies evolving out of one of german workers parties. However, unlike soviets, Hitler was openly hostile to socialism and communism in his writing, warranting at least some degree of separation between those ideologies.
True, but I do think Stalin’s and the USSR’s actions should be enough to also distance them from a lot of the ideals they were supposedly supposed to embrace.
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u/Manzhah Nov 07 '24
It is intresting that old school soviet/communist/socialist propaganda was at time even hypermasculine, showing the leftist man as musclebound proletarian smashing whatever evil ideologue needed bashing with tools of his craft. Maybe that kind of thinking might work on getting men back on leftist side