A “drag-queen” figure from 1894
The caricature above is cropped from a 1894 Judge magazine cover. The theme is “imperialism”. And it sharply features all notions encapsulated in what it means imperialism. It’s a pill to gulp Fanon’s work. It’s so simple and real even today that it relentlessly pierces the “leftist” fantasies of freedom to either incite their aggression or (for a bit smarter ones) lead their ignorance. That is how it is often blamed as a “racist” caricature. Continue reading “The 3rd Symposium for Russian Studies: Empires in the grip of Imperialism“