Stakhanovism is often used as a shorthand for an extremely crass conception of Marxism promoted by some in the Soviet Union, like the protagonist here is a caricature of. The actual degree to which such ideas were broadly supported versus it being a convenient thing for western reactionaries like Orwell to mock (see Boxer in Animal Farm), I will leave to others to decide, but that seems to be the message of the image.
In this context, depicting oneself as a comically photoshopped muscle man is also very thematic.
Who’s in the portrait?
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It’s me on the left and everyone else on the internet on the right
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei_Stakhanov You can see a version of the image in the article.
Stakhanovism is often used as a shorthand for an extremely crass conception of Marxism promoted by some in the Soviet Union, like the protagonist here is a caricature of. The actual degree to which such ideas were broadly supported versus it being a convenient thing for western reactionaries like Orwell to mock (see Boxer in Animal Farm), I will leave to others to decide, but that seems to be the message of the image.
In this context, depicting oneself as a comically photoshopped muscle man is also very thematic.