Video: Giant Monopoly Board - Banksy's contribution to Occupy London
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The Occupy Wall Street civic protest quickly grew into a worldwide protest movement. One of the cities where demonstrations take place is London. There is movement here Occupy London, joined by the world renowned hooligan artist Banksy.
Occupy Wall Street, Occupy London and other Occupy demonstrations are an excellent platform for expressing your thoughts, opinions and talent. New York creators already boast the anti-capitalist Occupy George dollars. But the artist Banksy recently took the side of the protesters from London.
Banksy is known all over the world for its street work, which is unusual, provocative and often hooligan. Therefore, it is not surprising that he joined the global anti-capitalist street movement, namely Occupy London.
The other day on one of the streets of London, where the protesters' tents are located, opposite St Paul's Cathedral, a huge board for playing Monopoly, the Giant Monopoly Board, created by Banksy appeared. … In it, all the principles of the accumulation and development of capital are set forth very clearly and clearly. And Banksy only added modern economic conditions to this game.
Banksy's Giant Monopoly Board depicts the world's countries and the world's largest economic centers as businesses. You can move around the playing field on chips in the form of expensive cars.
Above the playing field of the Giant Monopoly Board is the figure of a capitalist sitting on his knees and begging for alms (laughs at the constant attempts of large corporations to ask their governments for tax concessions and financial assistance). Next to this figure is a model of a house with the inscription "TOX", which symbolizes the toxicity of the mortgage market, from the collapse of which in 2008 began the World Financial Crisis.
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