“Cold War Anti-Communist Trading Cards”, Victoria Phillips, Originally presented on Dec 2, 2021 to the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, later it was broadcast on C-Span 2, beginning on Feb 12, 2022, at < https://www.c-span.org/video/?
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Introduction by dmorista:
This presentation is really great, it discusses classic Cold War Paranoia, and it demonstrates the pervasiveness of the disinformation and propaganda attacks on the Soviet Union back during the 1950s and 1960s. It is entitled “Cold War Anti-Communist Trading Cards”; it was originally presented by Victoria Phillips, on Dec 2, 2021, to the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. It was broadcast on C-Span 2, beginning on Feb 12, 2022), and is available at < https://www.c-span.org/video/?
The entire discussion is about just one set of anti-communist trading cards, produced and marketed by the Bowman Gum Company in 1951. In addition, the Bowman Company benefited from at least some cooperation from the U.S. State Department. The card set also promotes the extreme right-wing American Christianity of that era, using figures and concepts from the American factions of reactionary Christianity.
To interpret this material one is drawn to the ideas of Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman in their pathbreaking book Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media. But the concept is taken even farther here in documenting the production and disseminatioin of these anti-communist trading cards. This emphasizes the importance of indoctrinating children; in any massive disinformation and propaganda campaign that aims to produce consent for a major policy desire of elements of the ruling class. Overall a very interesting and unique look at propaganda and indoctrination in the U.S. in the 1950s.
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