Cartoons on Communism: Point-Counterpoint

Jesse Walker | November 14, 2006

Everyone knows that Daffy Duck is a draft-dodger and Donald Duck is a capitalist stooge, but what about their cartoon comrades? Well...

Click here to see dozens of vintage animations mashed up with The Communist Manifesto.

Click here to see the opposing point of view.

[First link via bOING bOING. Directed by Jesse Drew, 1996. Second link via the first link. Directed by Joseph Barbera and William Hanna, 1948.]

Comments

|11.14.06 @ 4:11PM|#

Mickey Mouse's dog was gay.

|11.14.06 @ 4:53PM|#

imported doubletalk.

It wasn't until then that I noticed the snake-oil salesman was considerably darker than the other characters.

Deus ex Machina|11.14.06 @ 5:40PM|#

I thought it was Donald's uncle Scrooge McDuck who was the arch-capitalist of the Disney family.

Jesse Walker|11.14.06 @ 5:46PM|#

I thought it was Donald's uncle Scrooge McDuck who was the arch-capitalist of the Disney family.

He's the capitalist. Donald's the stooge.

|11.14.06 @ 6:05PM|#

Mickey Mouse's dog was gay.

Yeah...I heard he was "F---ing Goofy"...

(rimshot)

|11.14.06 @ 6:08PM|#

What no Worker and Parasite?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iDGFbuHDgo

|11.14.06 @ 7:05PM|#

Daffy Duck was a Duck Dodger as well.

|11.14.06 @ 8:14PM|#

Marxists would do better for themselves if they didn't ramble so.

|11.14.06 @ 10:48PM|#

Speaking of cartoons, how can I access Reason cartoon archives with this new fangled look you folks got?

|11.15.06 @ 8:18AM|#

Speaking of cartoons, how can I access Reason cartoon archives with this new fangled look you folks got?

Top right corner.