Is This Tomorrow: A Red Scare Propaganda Comic 

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Catholic Church, famously kniwn for promoting for critical thinking

Fun facts: Marx’s quote about religion being an opiate is often read out of context. It was more touching on the role of religion among the poor as a means of soothing their conditions. It’s more complicated than simply “religion is toxic.” In Marx’s observation religion among the poor workers is a painkiller, though an addictive one, which sets it apart from the role of religion among the wealthy and powerful. Whether the Soviet Union misinterpreted the statement is another story, though at the time the church and the tsar were linked in a similar way to the church and the British empire, so the Soviets may have had reasons to interpret Marx the way they did. History is complicated, especially revolutionary history. Also the earliest socialists were actually a Christian sect calling themselves “the diggers.” Their social model was the apostles in the book of Acts holding everything in common amongst themselves. Marx more or less focused an already existing religiously-rooted philosophy to an historical labor-focused lens. So Western Christianity’s disdain for communism is not only bizarre but also objectively unbiblical. And before anyone argues, I have more than a decade of biblical studies under my belt. This is an area I know a lot about. Tl;dr: God forbid a worker should seize the means of production 🤷

I hurt myself laughing at the "But if you want to support capitalism..." joke. Totally worth it! Well played. I've seen samples of this book before and am always surprised at how solid the art is. Thank you!

3:27 greatest Patreon Plug transition ever. Compliments Comrade, that was art! 🤣

I hope no offense is taken, but because your voice is so smooth and relaxing that I thought it was AI. The chuckle after your mispronunciation cleared the air on that 😅

“ASS ASS INATION” BY GRENADE? Brutal.

They may have been done to death at this point, but would love to see a video on Chick Tracts in your awesome style

Americans all have such strange politics against humanity while deeming themselves the best of the world.

I see (on Wikipedia) that "...The comic book includes some of the first published comic drawings by Minneapolis-born Charles M. Schulz, creator of Peanuts."

5:30 This is generally very rich given the comic book panic of the late 40's and 50's did in fact involve several mass comic book burnings propagated by religious institutions, usually at schools.

Fun fact: Charles Sculz drew some of the pages of «Is this tomorrow».

Ironically the “Ten Commandments of Citizenship” are arguably good advice, at least taken in a vacuum and not with the bias implied by its context. Keep up on world events, examine what your politicians do, consider the biases of your sources and vote.

This was the age of propaganda Comics all around. I believe this is when the American Lung Association released the infamous "where there's smoke"

Who knew "If footmen tire you, what will horses do?" Was an early comic book movie /jk

Love this channel!

Don't leave us on tenterhooks, _can_ 6,000 nuns be wrong?

With regard to the success of "This is Tomorrow" in defeating communism, the work of historians like Alex Carey suggest that communism was never the real target, but that industrial capitalism sought to defuse (with staggering budgets allotted to printed matter, films, radio etc) the threat of worker-based input to manufacturing decision making and investment. As a side note, when specifying the Red Scare, it's important to specify which Red Scare: the one associated with the Palmer Raids after WW1, or the one associated with McCarthy? Again Carey is a good guide for the red scare's longevity and evolution.

I highly recommend everyone read The Jakarta Method.

Shades of Orson Welles, the "in character" bits were eerily effective.

"Factually fluid" *lol*

Anyone else remember the nuclear bomb drills in grade school? That was scary shit.

Down with capitalism comrade brain parts

“Oh ho, Jesus…” This is going to be a fun episode.

At least the artwork is somewhat competent and consistent throughout the entire comic and on par with what was being published in the 1940-1950s which is kind of unusual for these types of publications. They're usually very hard to even look at.

Have you made a video about Jack Chick?

One of your best probably.

As always I’m passing this onto my FB page.

Damn, more things change the more they stay the same. Are we a species doomed to repeat the same cycles of stupid sh't over and over? The answer is yes. And maybe no.

The Jack Chick tracts are more fun to read, but this is in color, at least.

If any video should have ended with an evil Bwahahahahaha, it was this one....

Yes, comrade. Let us drink vodka and eat stroganoff and borscht while we laugh at the silly capitalists!

Antisemitism? Media manipulation? Hostility against religion? The rise of communism in America? This book was a prophesy of the 2020s! And with fewer typos than a modern Marvel book, too.

I knew stuff like this existed. But I guess people don't usually talk about this. Unlike say American intervention in Middle and South America.

This was a very cool video

😅.. messes with their business model,. Thank you, best line ever

The cal wha and who?

Strange brain parts has been activated

A warning about Communism from Canada? :)

The first comic says the Catholics still have their guns which I guess is the way Jesus would have liked it?

Fascinating. Cheers

Those rules are...well pretty good actually.

how important is getco to your work process.

I quite liked this comic.

Today we need one of these, except about Fascism.

did USSR ever do comics ???

Yeah cause communism would never become a problem…. Right?

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