Bad Taste: Lenin's Materialism and Empirio-Criticism

by Cormac · Socialist Challenge No. 49, 8 June 1978 · p. 14 of the scan · 114 words

The scan: sc-n49-jun-8-1978.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

This text was corrected by hand against the scan: the strip at the head of page 14, which the machine reading did not see; image taken from the scan and its lettering transcribed (18 Oct 2026). One of Cormac's Bad Taste strips: Lenin's Materialism and Empirio-Criticism.

page 14 of the scan

Three-panel cartoon strip: a reader ploughing through Lenin's Materialism and Empirio-Criticism, then a choir of open-mouthed singers belting out the Internationale with a pun on Kant. — Cormac, "Bad Taste" (unnumbered), Socialist Challenge no. 49, 8 June 1978, page 14. From the Marxists Internet Archive scan.

The strip, panel by panel

1. BAD TASTE by Cormac. (A bespectacled man reads Lenin's "Materialism and Empirio-Criticism".) "It's heavy stuff, but now I know why they sing ...."

2. (Singers, open-mouthed, among huge looming shapes.) "For reason in revolt now thunders and ..." (A small balloon at the bottom: [illegible].)

3. (Four singers.) "... at last ends the age of KANT!"

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