…remember those t-shirts from a couple of years ago, sold in Top Shop, with Che Guevara – Legend, printed all over them? Or the more consistent trend of supposed liberal lefties wearing Everyone’s Favourite Marxist Guerilla Terrorist’s face on food-stained XXL potato-sacks so as to assert how radical they are? Not that i’m the type to see an irony in paying for such t-shirts, but i just thought someone like Nike could jump on the bandwagon. I mean, i’m sure there’s many millions of dollars left to be made. Especially if you cut labour costs by moving to some place where human rights are considered a rather amusing, if somewhat dirty, joke. Like China, they know all about practical Marxism there.
Hell, i’ve even designed an advert targetted at all those cool kids who thought Che’s face was just for that nerdy guy in glasses with greasy hair, always wearing his mum’s old Beret which she hasn’t put on since they were cool in 1981.
10 February, 2007 at 6:43 pm |
The commodification of this image of a revolutionary figure is the perfect example of how consumerism works.
but hey, he deserves to be on a t-shirt, he put in place my favourite stalinoid dictatorship, using open violence! Ace!
11 February, 2007 at 3:26 pm |
Exactly!
Let’s all go and watch the Motorcycle Diaries and revel in how nice he was. He played football with lepers, don’t you know.
UTTER CRAP FILM.