Anarchy and Art by Antliff Allan

Author:Antliff, Allan [Antliff, Allan]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: art, anarchy
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

114 ANARCHY ANDART

Protected by twO oceans, the

United States' economy boomed

while civilian life Uapanese

Americans exempted) went on as

usual. Peace and prosperity on the

home front proved a boon to government propaganda, which mobilized the population around the myth that they lived in an equitable, bountiful, democratic para

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dise bursting with freedoms. As

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one 1942 poster boasted, "This is

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dream of being President. Where

free schools) fre.e opportnnity, free.

enterprise, have built the most de

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cent nation on earth. A nation built

America ... , 1942. Poster.

upon the rights of all men."l

Seemingly, i n the minds of the American public, the government

could do no wrong. Indeed, on August 8, 1945, two days after the

atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, 85 percent of those surveyed favored the action, and 96.5 percent of those polled following the bombing of Nagasaki approved of future bombings, if required.3

Dwight Macdonald, the anarchist-pacifist editor of the New York

journal Politics (1944-1949), was one of the few to offer another pointof-view: dropping the bomb proved conclusively that the much vaunt

ll of the Berlin Wall.

ed democracies of the United States and Britain were stage-managed

affairs run by bureaucrats completely devoid of any humanitarian sen-

timent. He wrote:

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It seems fitting that the bomb was not developed by any of the

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totalitarian powers . . . but by two democracies (Britain and the

United States), the last major powers to continue to pay at least

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