Varifrank: Saturday Afternoon 'Spit Take'

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Saturday Afternoon 'Spit Take'

A parade in Saigon (Ho Chi Mihn City) Saturday, including a salute to supermarkets, marked the 30th anniversary of the fall of Saigon...

Caption: Hello my name is Comrade France Nyguyen, and my father and grandfather fought a bloodthirsty horrific war that killed millions of my countrymen so as to throw out the imperialist robber baron capitalist blood sucking stooges so I could be in this parade celebrating crass mercantilism and consumer goods. Life is funny sometimes, isnt it comrade? Hey have I told you about my Herbalife business? Have you heard of 'multi level marketing', well....

So What was it that the Communists were fighting for if today they have a parade to celebrate SHOPPING? They used to have parades to celebrate cutting sugar cane, now its SHOPPING?as the kids say, WTF?

You know, I'm sorry, but I missed that stanza in the 'internationale' that covered the indivuduals desire for mercantile and consumer goods for the new 'Soviet man'. Maybe they meant to include the lyrics ,but they couldn't figure out how make it rhyme...

Arise ye workers from your slumbers Tommorow is white flower day at Macys...
Arise ye prisoners of want
For reason in revolt now thunders
And at last ends the age of cant. 'cause yes you can with KMart 'Layaway special' plans
Away with all your superstitions
Servile masses arise, arise
We'll change henceforth the old tradition
And spurn the dust to win the prize. 'cause 'Everyones a winner' at the Grand Forks Mall...

So comrades, come rally (at the wal-mart with double off coupons)

And the last fight let us face
The Internationale unites the human race. With a desire for those delicious little nibbles they serve on saturdays to tempt you to buy more dessert items in the frozen food section of Fred Meyer
So comrades, come rally
And the last fight let us face
The Internationale unites the human race.

Yeah, ok I can see why they left the alternate lyrics out, but damn, you'd think that someone would have told everyone that Marx and Engles were really working for a world where everyman could afforda DVD player for far less than the cost of an average dinner date.

Who would've thought that the most effective weapon the west had to end the slavery of socialism would be just the idea of a full shopping cart. Its a pretty powerful icon if you think about it.

Posted @ April 30, 2005 02:54 PM | Current Affairs

As usual, the press coverage is rather superficial. See my post here for a different view from a North Vietnamese.
http://vietpundit.blogspot.com/2005/04/pham-thi-hoai-on-vietnam.html

Posted by: VietPundit at May 1, 2005 12:49 PM

it was more than superficial, it was fawning. The picture of the supermarket shoppers as the only thing that caught my eye.

I cannot for the life of me understand why normally aspriatred human beings can have so much love for such a distructive power as communism.

Posted by: varifrank at May 1, 2005 05:52 PM

...for a minute there, I thought is was a photo of the Pasadena Doo-Dah parade - Synchronized Shopping Carts or some such.

Posted by: leelu at May 2, 2005 11:41 AM