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On the libcom Facebook it was brought up that the picture of the capitalist octopus resembles Nazi propaganda. Thought I would copy and past what I said about that.
I remember people here were saying the antisemitism thing about a stupid Latuff cartoon with an octopus a few years back. Octopuses have been used in political cartoons since at least the 1880's, most commonly referring to monopoly capital but also nations and races and a whole bunch of other things. I'm assuming that one Nazi cartoon is used in schools cause I can't think of any other reason for this popular association with antisemitism to be made. Sprawling octopuses are used in mainstream modern political cartoons all the time (this isn't a trade known for its originality), referring to everything you can think of- Obamacare,the economy, so on. Here just some examples from the past couple of years:
http://media.cagle.com/21/2013/10/31/139576_600.jpg
http://worldmeets.us/images/largetentaclesnarcos_excelsior.gif
http://ginacobb.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c2c6053ef014e8c118f6e970d-800wi
http://www.artizans.com/images/previews/FEL1654.pvw.jpg
http://media.cagle.com/78/2013/02/08/126825_600.jpg
http://www.cartoonistgroup.com/properties/Wuerker/art_images/cg5306e3d2c...