Lee libros anarquistas y serás un hombre (anarchist poster)
Poster in black and red of a stylised head and shoulders with a large eye set over an open book, with the words 'Lee libros anarquistas y serás un hombre' running across the foot and a small line in French on the book's cover. The tell: reading is offered as the way to become a 'man', so an ideology's literature is attached to adult self-respect, and the watching eye adds a faint sense of being looked at.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1936
- Period
- Interwar
- Made by
- Anarchist movement (Spain); publisher not named on the Commons record
Full record
Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Themes, Event, Source, Rights
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- Spain
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Movement
- Regime
- Second Spanish Republic
- Leader
- Francisco Largo Caballero
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Labor, Media and information
- Event
- Spanish Civil War
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons, retrieved October 11, 2026
- Rights
- Commons public-domain tag; URAA status not cleared; hosted on owner decision October 2, 2026
Wikimedia Commons, File:Lee libros anarquistas y seras un hombre.jpg (author unknown or anonymous per the file page unless stated in the entry notes).
Text on the object
Original (Spanish) · read from the image, not independently checked
LEE LIBROS ANARQUISTAS Y SERÁS UN HOMBRE
Read anarchist books and you will be a man (a real man; 'hombre' also means 'human being')
Only the large lettering is transcribed; the faint French line on the book cover and the signature are not legible enough to transcribe verbatim. The accent on SERÁS is printed. Translation by Claude, not checked by a fluent reader.
