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Capitalism, Communism, and Fascism, right? I love how he sneaked swastikas into the building on the right. The guy carving in the foreground is a hammer-and-sickle?
Where? In an interview, Blume said that the building on the right was meant to symbolize a British building during the Blitz period when London was being bombed by the German Luftwaffe. It would be kinda weird to put swastikas onto the building in that case without putting it on a weapon or otherwise making it obvious it's not meant to be a German building.
Source Interview. The full interview nor transcript are accessible online, because it is 14 hours long, or 195 pages respectively. However, if you go in person or request access via Reference Services, they may provide it on a case by case basis online.
In the angles of the broken, burt-out timbers. Compare to Max Ernst's " The Triumph of Surrealism ".
That's very interesting, thanks. I'm surprised Blume assigned such straightforward symbolism to the various parts of the painting, usually something this surreal leaves a fair amount open to interpretation.