Triumph of the implicit ...

... On the relics of oppression. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

It takes an effort of the imagination, I think, to understand the implications of these ruins, or rather of the constructions that fell into them. Here, perhaps, a minimal understanding of the background is necessary. It was one of the communist criticisms of capitalism, that took a part of the truth for the whole, that capitalism produced not for use but for profit; and in response, communists devised a system that produced neither for use nor for profit, but for propaganda.