Die neuen Steuern: Restlose Ausplünderung des Proletariats! (The New Taxes: Total Plundering of the Proletariat!)
A bound worker in red kneels while a priest, two men in top hats, a man in a feathered hat and two men in caps marked 'SPD' rifle him and reach for a sack labelled 'Für die armen Kapitalisten' (For the poor capitalists). Blame for the new taxes is placed on one group of caricatured figures, business, clergy and the Social Democrats together, and the label 'total plundering' is the poster's own.
- Date
- 1924
- Period
- Interwar
- Made by
- Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands (KPD), published by Verlag VKPD; artist Alfred Stiller
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- Weimar Germany
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Party
- Regime
- Weimar Republic
- Leader
- Wilhelm Marx
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Elections and party politics, Economy and finance, Labor
- Event
- Reichstag Election 1924
- Techniques
- ScapegoatingName-calling
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons, retrieved September 29, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (published 1924, before 1931; artist Alfred Stiller d. 1954; Commons PD tags with Public Domain Mark)
Alfred Stiller for the KPD (Verlag VKPD), 1924, via Wikimedia Commons.
Text on the object
Die neuen Steuern Restlose Ausplünderung des Proletariats! Für die armen Kapitalisten [on the money sack] SPD [on each of two caps] VERLAG VKPD Stiller [signature, right]
The New Taxes Total plundering of the proletariat! For the poor capitalists [on the money sack] SPD [on each of two caps] PUBLISHER VKPD Stiller [signature, right]
