Playing Communist

Stephen Marche over at Esquire offers some analysis of modern America’s fascination with socialist aesthetics. He cites Shepard Fairey’s Obama image as the most recent incarnation of pseudo socialistic sympathies hitting the mainstream. For generation Y it truly has been hip to seem red. In my early teens I rocked my Che emblazoned Rage Against the Machine t-shirt religiously and talked trash about NAFTA but I was just about as subversive as my Abercrombie dudded compadres. It will be interesting to see if this trend stays alive as the gap between the Cold War and the present widens.