Marxist university students of the world - unite!

...and send your letters to the Globe and Mail, who today had a story on the Marx mural. (The National Post had only a copy of Mr. Paraskevas' FP story.)

Winnipeg masses rise up against Marx mural

""People have referred to it as the Marx mural. I never have. That wasn't my intention. I wanted to do a mural describing the social progress of Eastern Europeans at that time," Ms. Shwetz said.

She smiled, her eyes hidden behind gold-rimmed Ray Bans, with iPod headphones dangling from her ears..."

Hmm. Maybe you Marxist apologists who think he had nothing to do with communism should be sending Ms. Shwetz scolding letters... Anyway, with or without Marx' image, I oppose any mural that depicts the "social progress" of Eastern Europe at the time of Communism, because that social progress came only through the whip and the sword. There was no bread, to say nothing of Ray Bans. I don't think its anything worth celebrating.

I'm not saying the BIZ should be commissioning murals of unsung Winnipeggers like Leonard Peikoff (Mr. Peikoff would probably think the best way the BIZ could honor him is to dissolve themselves), but it seems funny that the official face of business interests in the West End wanted socialism--but not THAT much socialism--on their murals in the first place. Businesses in the West End work hard at their own wealth creation, and their local representative wants to take money from them to pay artists to celebrate thier destruction?

If nothing else, Ms. Shwetz only got right to the source of what they wanted by attempting to depict Karl Marx, and as I pointed out in my first post, credit the guy whose ideas (or the ideas of his disciples) have been made manifest all around his now censored image.