The French Communist Party headquarters in Paris designed by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer.

"The architect had abandoned his country but not his lifelong political principles: In a show of solidarity, Niemeyer worked on the project for free. But his Marxist-Leninist sympathies were not limitless. "On the politics, I'm with you, but your architecture is awful."

"I am attracted to free-flowing, sensual curves," he wrote in his memoirs. "The curves that I find in the mountains of my country, in the sinuousness of its rivers, in the waves of the ocean, and on the body of the beloved woman."

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Oscar Niemeyer's French Communist Party Headquarters Brings a Sensual Brazilian Lilt to Paris - Interior Design

  • blobjim [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Ho Chi Minh wasn't just a member, he co-founded it didn't he?

    • RamrodBaguette [comrade/them, he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Tmw you co-found a party, only to dismiss them as a lost cause because they wouldn’t budge on their colonialist and social chauvinist positions

      :uncle-ho:

      • Waldoz53 [he/him, any]
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        2 years ago

        they wouldn’t budge on their colonialist and social chauvinist positions

        someone tell the communist party of canada this