#communist dog

[dispatchesfromtheclasswar]

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[welele]

Doge, such commie, very anticapitalist, much urss

[communistswithdogs]

I now have a dog whom I got from August Bredt of Barmen when he left here. It’s a handsome young spaniel, much bigger than our dear Mira and quite crazy. He has a great talent for boozing and if I go to a restaurant in the evening, he always sits near me and has his share, or makes himself at home at everybody else’s table. He’s also remarkable for an invisible collar. He is an excellent swimmer but too crazy to learn any tricks. I have taught him one thing. When I say “Namenloser (that’s his name) there’s an aristocrat!” he goes wild with rage and growls hideously at the person I show him.

- Friedrich Engels in a letter to Marie Engels (8 August 1842)

[communistswithdogs]

Loukanikos the Greek riot dog, forever hounding the police and accompanying its comrades in the fight against capitalist austerity.

[communistswithdogs]

Lenin petting a dog.

We have all seen the pictures of Lenin with cats, but what hasn't been noticed is that the cats Lenin is holding are always in an ambiguously subdued position. Isn't the feline thus symbolic for the bourgeoisie? Arrogant, egotistical and it needs to be subdued.

Dogs on the other hand don't need submission. Dogs are in a dialectical relationship with the subaltern classes as loyal partners in the struggle against bourgeois hegemony and catpitalism.

[communistswithdogs]

Albert Einstein in his office at Princeton with his Fox Terrier dog Chico, because smart communists need smart pets to accompany them in their intellectual work for the revolution. 

Einstein once said about Chico: "the dog is very smart, he feels sorry for me because I receive so much mail; that’s why he tries to bite the mailman.". So this good proletarian dog even tried to prevent Einstein from overworking. What cat has done such a caring and noble thing for its owner ever?

[communistswithdogs]

Salvador Allende with his Weimaraner dog, because as a popular marxist president you can count more on the loyalty of dogs and the working class than that of cats and generals.