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Capitalist Propaganda Posters

Nick Gillespie | 3.3.2011 11:20 AM

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Via the Twitter feed of Newmanology (follow it if you want a great stream of super-cool graphics!) comes a link to Today's Inspiration, a site featuring a truly bizarre series of advertisements from General Electric and other defense contractors back in the day. The poster to the right is just one example; the others (including one done for Roebling by Norman Rockwell) are well worth checking out.

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Nick Gillespie is an editor at large at Reason and host of The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie.

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