Welcome to your daily dose of philatelic class struggle
brought to you by the postal services of the red menace.
Letter Carriers of the World Unite!
I certainly don't have a huge or well organized collection (read: I have a life), but I enjoy looking at what I have as well as researching the history behind the stamps and searching for more of them: hence my paycheck dwindling away to eBay dealers and this little project! My collection is DDR focused (I'm trying to get a complete East Germany) and I have a lot of Soviet. The areas I am trying to improve upon are DPRK (North Korea), Albania, PRC (People's Republic of China....very spendy, those Mao stamps), Cuba, and Viet Nam. I have dreams of a complete PDRY (People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, or South Yemen), but I have little hope. Anybody wanna trade stuff?!?!? Click on that mail icon and let's make a deal....
The clincher for getting this online philatelic circus going however was the "Commie Kitsch" entry my lovely and loving girlfriend VJ did in her online journal (check it out. . . mighty cool).
Just to clarify, I'm not a commie (though I do play one on TV). I have a great deal of respect for Marx's work (good read!) and I'm very intrigued by the Council Communist and autonomous marxist stuff I have thus far read, but I consider myself an anarchist (in the left anarchist tradition of Kropotkin and Bakunin). For more info on Anarchist philosophy and history check out Mid-Atlantic Infoshop.
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Updates: I will have the Archive page up sometime on Friday, August 13th (in a rudimentary form) and I am working on the links page, it will probably be up sometime this week. I am anxious for any suggestions readers might have, so please send praise/criticism/abuse to jmorris@hevanet.com Thanks and enjoy the stamps! -- Joseph
PS: Thanks Mike, for sparking my interest in rotten stinking commie art....
Welcome to the Subversive Commie Stamp of the Day homepage. I've been a stamp collector of sorts for about the last year and a half ago, primarily as a means of more cheaply gathering "commie" historical collectibles. I have a handful of orders and medals, a couple of banners, a poster or two, all of which, for the most part, set me back a good bit. Stamps are cheap!! This discovery, along with the discovery that many socialist / communist countries produced stamps that were basically tiny propoganda posters, inspired me to start snapping stuff up. I'm a big AgitProp (agitational propaganda) fan, particularly the work of Georg Grosz, Hearstfield, and Leopoldo Méndez and others of the TGP of Mexico.