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Vol.3 #4 - Boots Too Big to Fill: Violence, Ideology, and the End of the Cold War
What do heroes leave behind?
The answer should be obvious.
The contest for control of the world economy entered a new age at the end of 1991. Socialist forces were in retreat as the then-second largest superpower, the USSR, crumbled under pressure from more than 70 years of capitalist onslaught. Its splintered masses would be powerless to defend themselves against instantaneous pillage and plunder by the avaricious.
Half a planet away, the ostensible beneficiaries of capitalist success, the US working class (including the writers and artists behind Superman), would find their rights and livelihoods under immediate and vicious attack as well, although you wouldn't know it by asking them.
An ideology of righteous violence befits a class of owners who need the workers to fight their wars, and it limits the imagination of a class of workers who need each other if they ever hope to win their own freedom.
What do heroes leave behind?
More heroes.
It's time to grasp what that means.
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Issues covered: The Legacy of Superman #1
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Special thanks to our Lovable Sidekicks: Better Possible Futures, Kourtney Smith, Walt Lewellyn, Kafka, The Black Casebook's Very Own Nightwing, JD Lunt, Ambird, Mr. Pig from the Intervention, Travis Armstrong, Chris Marks, Wirecats, Sheeee-itttt, VoidTek, Mars Hottentot, Richard Bell, TakoTuesday, Joseph, and Knife Money
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Email: [email protected]
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/collectiveactioncomics
Twitter: https://twitter.com/CAComixPod
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Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/collectiveactioncomics
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What do heroes leave behind?
The answer should be obvious.
The contest for control of the world economy entered a new age at the end of 1991. Socialist forces were in retreat as the then-second largest superpower, the USSR, crumbled under pressure from more than 70 years of capitalist onslaught. Its splintered masses would be powerless to defend themselves against instantaneous pillage and plunder by the avaricious.
Half a planet away, the ostensible beneficiaries of capitalist success, the US working class (including the writers and artists behind Superman), would find their rights and livelihoods under immediate and vicious attack as well, although you wouldn't know it by asking them.
An ideology of righteous violence befits a class of owners who need the workers to fight their wars, and it limits the imagination of a class of workers who need each other if they ever hope to win their own freedom.
What do heroes leave behind?
More heroes.
It's time to grasp what that means.
----------
Issues covered: The Legacy of Superman #1
----------
Special thanks to our Lovable Sidekicks: Better Possible Futures, Kourtney Smith, Walt Lewellyn, Kafka, The Black Casebook's Very Own Nightwing, JD Lunt, Ambird, Mr. Pig from the Intervention, Travis Armstrong, Chris Marks, Wirecats, Sheeee-itttt, VoidTek, Mars Hottentot, Richard Bell, TakoTuesday, Joseph, and Knife Money
----------
Email: [email protected]
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/collectiveactioncomics
Twitter: https://twitter.com/CAComixPod
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/cacomixpod.bsky.social
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/collectiveactioncomics
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