[UA] Commie Smurfs

[Alex Lampros]

An intellectual communist strikes me as more likely to integrate his ideas 
into a succesful TV show.  A fanatic who tried to do that would probably 
end up with something horribly blatant and goofy, someone who just lets 
some ideas guide their creativity could produce something good.



On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 11:17:25 -0000, José Luis Nunes Porfírio 
<heinrichkornelius at yahoo.com> wrote:

>> I guess a lot of you already knew this, but the creator of the Smurf 
>> was a
>> Communist.  The Smurfs were created as a Communist analogy.  Papa Smurf
>> was the Communist party, dispensing wisdom and helping out when the
>> Proletariat got in trouble.  (remember his red hat?)  Their was only one
>> Smurfette because the Communists believed in abolishing relationships 
>> as a
>> way of emancipating women - if everyone 'shares each other' it becomes
>> harder to treat women as property.  The bad guy (Gargamel) was always
>> after the smurfs because he didn't them as part of his magical formula 
>> to
>> create gold.
>>
>> Someone who might actually know told me that this is actually 
>> established,
>> that the guy who invented the Smurfs (who was French, incidentally) was
>> actually known as a Socialist.  It could still be something some 
>> graduate
>> student dreamed up while high.  But I suspect its true.
>
> That doesn't hold together when you find out the Smurfs were created 
> within
> another series called _The Adventures of Johan and Pirlouit_, two 
> medieval
> adventures, one being the King's page, the other the King's jester. The
> Smurfs were more like helpful little men of medieval legend then, Faerie 
> who
> lived far away, in the Damned Land. As for Peyo being communist, well, 
> being
> intellectually a communist in Europe is different from being a militant
> communist. Especially in France and Belgium. There were, or perhaps are,
> people who voted communist simply because the communists did a damn good 
> job
> within local power, and after WWII it was chic to be left wing, even 
> while
> deploring the most blatant excesses of the communist block.«, and the
> application of Marxism into practice by the State. Communist parties in
> Europe were not the Red Enemy, but a moderating force in European 
> politics.
> Not moderate - never that - but its presence forced a moderating stance 
> in
> more conservative political forces.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Zé
> Lisbon
> Portugal
> Europe
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ua-bounces at lists.unknown-armies.com [mailto:ua-
>> bounces at lists.unknown-armies.com] On Behalf Of Alex Lampros
>> Sent: quarta-feira, 10 de Março de 2004 5:47
>> To: The Unknown Armies RPG Mailing List
>> Subject: [UA] Commie Smurfs
>>
>>
>> Just thought I'd share,
>>
>> Alex
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