![]() Star Wars is a more effective vehicle to influence the young, whose culture has already been colonized, with ideals of freedom as well as to capitalize on our collective distress. Sill penning sharp critiques, Ariel Dorfman sees Donald Trump as Donald Duck: “We are clearly in a moment,” he writes, “when a yearning to regress to the supposedly uncomplicated, spotless, and innocent America of those Disney cartoons, the sort of America that Walt once imagined as eternal, fills Trump and so many of his followers with an inchoate nostalgia.” Today, Donald Duck lags in its appeal to consumers. In 1973, after the bloodiest coup in the continent’s history - a coup that ended Salvador Allende’s Popular Unity government, his life, and the lives of thousands - General Augusto Pinochet’s junta had the book burned, along with many other books deemed subversive. Written by Chilean radicals Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart in 1971, How to Read Donald Duck analyzed decades of postwar Disney comics designed to indoctrinate the children of Latin America with pro-capitalist propaganda. Disney sued the book’s publisher for “piratical” use of characters. ![]() Printed in Hungary, the underground screed against Disney’s Donald Duck comics was immediately detained by the Imports Compliance Branch of the US Customs Department. HOW TO READ Donald Duck: Imperialist Ideology in The Disney Comic landed in the United States in 1975. ![]() dreams and redeems itself, and then imposes that dream upon others for its own salvation” ![]()
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