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Cartoonist Thomas Nast drew carousing skeletons to represent communism in his art. Many are labeled "DEADHEADISM" and "FREE LOVE," yet Nast made these in the mid/late 1800s. What did those terms mean in the context of the time?

by /u/bandswithgoats in /r/AskHistorians

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