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Say, isn't that Karl Marx? (Well, at least the hair is over the ears.)
That reminds me a Romanian joke from the 1970s. Around 1975 the communist authorities began to crack down on men wearing long hair and/or beards (pop/rock music, jeans etc. were frowned upon too) - they saw these things as an unwelcome imperialist influence:
A longhaired guy is stopped by a cop on a street in Bucharest and the cop forces him to cut his hair. The guy protests: "But Karl Marx and Fredrich Engels had long hair too". The cop: "Don't worry, we're going to get them!".
In 1976 or 1977 I managed to get a police patrol car stuck into a mudpool when they tried to chase me through the Bucharest freight railroad yard. I was on bicycle and I refused to stop when they tried to pull me to the side because of my long hair. I crossed some railroad tracks and the police tried to cross the same tracks through an underpass which had been filled with water by a thunderstorm...
Nick
And Americans used to hate the long-hair hippies for sympathizing with the Communists during the Viet-Nam War!
I guess that the long-hair guy is a pariah to anyone of any politics, just as the Jew and the homosexual were pariahs who were hated by everyone.