[UA] Commie Smurfs

[José Luis Nunes Porfírio]

> 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.

Originally it wasn't a TV show. It was a "Bande Dessinée" - something the
other side of the Atlantic would call a comic book series.

Cheers,

Zé

> -----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 11:24
> To: The Unknown Armies RPG Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [UA] Commie Smurfs
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 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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