Meme - Steven Welliever @StevenWelliever: "2 + 2 = 5 was the arithmetic of Forced Collectivization"
*Soviet poster: 2+2 = 5*
Jason Crawford @jasoncrawford: "“2 + 2 = 5” was a literal Communist slogan I always assumed Orwell had made it up as an over-the-top ridiculous example, but he got it from Eugene Lyons's book Assignment in Utopia:"
"XV. Two Plus Two Equals Five
INDUSTRIALIZATION went forward with a great roar and frenzied war whoops. Reports of building, factory output, new collectives and state farms elbowed all other news off the front pages. There was a constant beating of alarm drums: a breach on one or another economic front, cries of sabotage, sudden arrests and shooting of engineers and administrators. Notwithstanding, plans were everywhere being fulfilled and even surpassed. New energies and enthusiasms, new threats as well, were having their effect. Food shortage was not yet at its acutest and the sapping of physical strength and working morale through undernourishment had not yet set in fully. Optimism ran amuck. Every new statistical success gave another justification for the coercive policies by which it was achieved. Every setback was another stimulus to the same policies. The slogan "The Five Year Plan in Four Years" was advanced, and the magic symbols "5-in-4" and "2+2 = 5" were posted and shouted throughout the land. The formula instantly riveted my attention. It seemed to me at once bold and preposterous-the daring and the paradox and the tragic absurdity of the Soviet scene, its mystical simplicity, its defiance of logic, all reduced to nose-thumbing arithmetic. . . . 2-+ 2 = 5: in electric lights on Moscow housefronts, in foot-high letters on billboards, spelled planned error, hyperbole, perverse optimism; something childishly headstrong and stirringly imaginative... 2+2 = 5: a slogan born in pre-mature success, tobogganing toward horror and destined to end up, lamely, as 2 + 2 1/4 = 5... The preliminary triumphs which evoked the slogan 2 + 2= 5 were in many ways disastrous. They corroborated the taskmasters' inherited conviction that any miracles could be worked through the sorcery of naked force. At the same time the first triumphs encouraged a costly revision of plans upward beyond the range of"
Meme - "What it must've felt like for Afghans to hear constant Soviet propaganda about how they were there to "save their country", while also bombing, strafing and slaughtering anything that moved"
K-2SO (Soviet Union): "Congratulations! You are being rescued"
Afghanistan (Jyn Erso): *on ground*
K-2SO (Soviet Union): "Please do not resist"
Meme - HowlingMutant @Howlingmutant0: "There’s a reason why theres a swastika and not a hammer and sickle tattoo in this scene and it’s because the billion dollar corporation that aired this doesn’t actually view you as a threat to anything they do, remember that"
"Look, I'm not the devil, okay? I'm just a guy with a belief system."
"Well, Dr. Bailey did save your life today. A black woman saved your life at great personal cost. So maybe next time you're looking at your tattoo, and you're thinking how much better all us white guys are than everyone else, you think about that. Because between you and me, if i had been alone in that O.R. You'd probably be dead right now. And, uh, since we're sharing belief systems, I believe, if you were dead, the world would be a better place."
Meme - W.E.B. Dat Boi @AquaMarching: "Yall ever think about what your roles would be post-revolution?"
grouchho marx @trashbouquet: "i hope to be a therapist, maybe for general trauma, but maybe re-educating the anti-social tendencies out of people in a gulag"
Quest Riggs @quest_riggs: "great thread! Red Army or the Party if they'd take me. If not, communal farming."
J.L. Hamilton @absinthol: "Logistics for the New Red Army. Uniform design / equipment procurement."
Meme - "When they ask me why I keep resisting Marxism...
I like food more than I hate rich people"
Meme - Tyler Lusa: "Oh no, tiananmen square 1989. If you even think about saying something against the chineese government they will kill you."
Kelso James: "lol even the survivors from that say the story from the West is a crock of shit"
Philipp Methling - Copywriter: "When the government can guarantee that I can afford groceries and that I have enough time of leisure, I don't care if they kill dissenters. I'd even help executing them. I don't need "rights" if they mean that I have to work three Jobs and yet can't afford a doctor."
Chris Freiman on X - "Flashback to the time Jacobin defended the Berlin Wall for helping to “build a society that was broadly characterized by modest prosperity and social equality between classes and genders.”"
Meme - Man with Communist T-shirt: "FASCISM IS CAPITALISM IN DECAY."
*Sees gardener with red MAGA hat*
Man with Communist T-shirt: "HELLO, CAPITALISM INC.? DID YOU KNOW YOUR GROUNDSKEEPER IS FASCIST?"
Socialism: A Case Study on Venezuela - The Policy Circle - "In the 1950s, Venezuela was the fourth wealthiest country in the world. Today, Venezuela is poorer than it was prior to the 1920s, its infrastructure is deteriorating, and its economy has been shrinking since the turn of the century. Hyperinflation (out of control price increases) has left the currency worthless and made it almost impossible for Venezuelans to afford basic necessities. Millions have fled the country’s inhospitable conditions. How did the country go from having a GDP on par with that of the United States, New Zealand, and Switzerland to having almost 90% of the population living in poverty?... What separates Venezuela from similar nations is its history of centralizing power, government overreach, and inability to “stabilise external and fiscal accounts.” By imposing price controls, expropriating private property, and conducting large-scale industry nationalization, the Venezuelan government brought the economy to a standstill and eliminated the economic freedom of its citizens. The “dismantling of democratic checks and balances, and sheer incompetence” led to Venezuela’s collapse. Some blame Venezuela’s humanitarian crisis on causes such as falling oil prices. However, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, and Kuwait are petro-states that saw their incomes fall when oil prices dropped but emerged from recession with their economies intact... The regimes of Presidents Hugo Chavez and Nicolás Maduro decimated the country through “relentless class warfare and government intervention in the economy.” Maintaining basic freedoms and remaining committed “to the rule of law, limited government, and checks and balances” separates Venezuela from other politically and economically prosperous democratic countries and serves as a reminder of the dangers of socialism for the rest of the world."
Damn US sanctions destroying the country to make socialism look bad! Not to mention the sanctions forced the government to unleash death squads
Meme - "when you're worse than the nazis but nobody cares because you flooded western academia with your useful idiots"
Lord Alli ‘evicted young family and raised rent by £1,000’ - "A family living in a home owned by Lord Alli were evicted from his north London town house before the property was relisted at a higher rent. The family of five were told by managing agents working for Labour’s biggest donor to leave the Islington home in June... The eviction at Lord Alli’s town house comes after Rushanara Ali was forced to resign as the Government’s homelessness minister last month after it emerged she evicted tenants from her east London home before relisting the property for £700 a month more in rent."
The Left’s obsession with inequality will clobber the middle classes - "one billionaire expounded on why spending £50m on a superyacht is deeply unethical, but £20m on a painting raises no such dilemmas. The reasoning was that superyachts are designed and built by super talented people whose labour could be put to a much more socially useful purpose. Auctioneers and art dealers, on the one hand, have no socially useful transferable skills, so seeing them attempt to ingratiate themselves with the super wealthy is just fine and dandy. It is an ethical question which will sadly not occupy many of us."
Corbyn told to take inspiration from Lenin - "Jeremy Corbyn’s new party could take inspiration from the ideas of Vladimir Lenin, one of his closest advisers has said. James Schneider, who served as Labour’s director of strategic communications under Mr Corbyn, made the comments in an interview about the direction the new Left-wing movement could take... Andrew Murray, another of Mr Corbyn’s former advisers, also invoked Lenin when discussing the new party."
Corbyn knows he’s on to something by preaching Marxism to young people - "32 per cent of 18- to 24-year-olds had a positive view of communism. The proportion of 25- to 34-year-olds sympathetic to far-Left ideas was even higher, at 40 per cent. There is little doubt that young people in particular – starved of idealism and prone to romanticism – are increasingly disillusioned with liberal democracy and sympathetic to an “alternative”, whatever that might be. Here, Corbyn and his acolytes appear to have spotted an opportunity. In a twisted way Schneider was correct to make Lenin his exemplar. Lenin was disciplined, single-minded and intelligent. Everything that Britain’s far-Left has traditionally lacked. We hear less from his modern-day admirers about how Lenin was also a murderous, cold-hearted dictator who replaced one form of tyranny with another, while laying the foundations of perhaps the most consistently repressive regime of the 20th century. It’s not just Lenin’s political beliefs that we should worry about when we think of disaffected young minds, but his methods. Lenin believed that, given the right conditions and tactics, a small group of dedicated revolutionaries could take power from a state. This is what Schneider was alluding to – he is not calling for a revolution by name, but he is by implication with his reference to Lenin’s formula for success... Part of the enduring attraction of the Corbyn project is that his supporters still see him as a benign figure, a kindly man with his allotment and his marrows, who just longs for a socialist utopia. It falls on the rest of us to remind people, who may not know, who Corbyn’s closest supporters have often sympathised with: Russia, Iran and Palestinian terrorists. Various British communist groups long held allegiances to the Soviet Union and many transferred these sympathies to Putin’s mafia state. They have also traditionally seen Iran since the Islamic revolution of 1979 – however appallingly repressive – as a heroic bulwark against the hated “West”. They see any Palestinian organisation, however murderous, as righteous. It may be that in the end Britain will be spared thanks to the hard-Left’s limitless capacity for factionalism and self destruction. A movement that puts such a premium on ideological purity cannot cope with the reality of human existence, any more than Marxism can."
arctotherium on X - "In the early years of the Soviet Union, the Bolsheviks replaced marriage with child support as the central organizing principle of the family. They abolished the legal category of legitimacy, and paternity and child support were recognized by the courts on a woman's word alone."
Sounds familiar
Meme - Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 @MarinaMedvin: "The best argument against socialism? Me. Taking photos in a grocery store upon arrival to the US, in disbelief that there is ... food."
Meme - *Daily Struggle Two Buttons*
Americans: Communism - "100% chance of getting your basic needs met"
Dollar sign - "0.00001% chance of getting rich"
*Americans pushing dollar sign*
Rich capitalist caricature: "Good Dog."
Jakeup @yashkaf: "the day before I was born was a holiday in the Soviet Union and there was a rumor that they're handing out oranges, two per person. there was still snow outside, but my mom, 9 months pregnant, decided it was worth it to go stand in line because she hasn't had an orange all year
after queueing up for a few hours, she got incredible news: pregnant women are allowed to buy as many oranges as they can afford. my mom has never seen anything like this and so, the physical strain of dragging two giant bags of oranges through the snow started the contractions"
Alice Smith on X - "What did Karl Marx do when he needed money? He begged Engels. How did Engels get his money? His daddy was a capitalist who owned a textile factory and was a partner in a cotton-spinning factory. As with the master, so with the disciples."
Thread by @RodDMartin on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "🚨 The Socialists just COLLAPSED in Bolivia. For the first time in 20 years, the Left has been wiped off the map. The presidential run-off this fall? 🔥 👉 Two conservatives. No socialist in sight. Here’s why this is a MASSIVE deal 🧵👇
Bolivia was one of the Left’s crown jewels. For 2 decades, Evo Morales & his socialist party (MaS) dominated the country. Now? Their candidate just pulled 3% in the first round. That’s not a defeat—it’s a humiliation. The run-off:
🇧🇴 Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga (former president, center-right)
🇧🇴 Rodrigo Paz Pereira (relative newcomer, also center-right)
Both conservatives. Both rejecting socialism. This is unheard of in Latin America.
Why the collapse?
❌ Soaring inflation
❌ Corruption & scandals
❌ Morales’s bitter feud with his own successor, Luis Arce
❌ Allegations Morales had sex with a 15-year-old girl
Even die-hard supporters had enough.
Evo Morales—Bolivia’s first indigenous president—once had cult-like popularity. Now? Both remaining candidates have vowed to arrest him if they win. That’s how far the socialist strongman has fallen.
Meanwhile, Bolivia is sitting on a GOLDMINE:
⚡ Some of the largest lithium deposits in the world.
⚡ Essential for phones, laptops, EVs, and defense tech.
Who controls Bolivia controls part of the global tech supply chain.
This matters beyond Bolivia. We’ve already seen Argentina swing hard right with Javier Milei. Now Bolivia. The pink tide of socialism in Latin America is breaking. And it’s conservatives leading the way. 🌊🇧🇴🇦🇷
The stakes are high:
👉 Will Bolivia follow Argentina with radical market reforms?
👉 Will conservatives finally end the cycle of corruption?
👉 Or will the Left claw back through chaos and unrest?
Either way, socialism just suffered a knockout blow."
Damn US sanctions!
Meme - "r/memesopdidnotlike
Literally millions of people died under communist regimes."
"r/MansFictionalScenario
I... I just...
Old man: Most of my grandma's family starved to death in 1933, Stalin was a murderer
Young orange haired woman with Yerba Mate: um no"
Left wingers love denying the horrors of communism
r/MansFictionalScenario is basically truths left wingers don't want to acknowledge
Meme - John Carter @martianwyrdlord: "Murdering the Czar was justified because of what he did, but murdering his daughters was even more justified because they were intelligent, educated, and pleasant-natured. I've never seen such a frank admission of bioleninism."
Nikolaj @nikicaga: "Tbh I think its an interesting case because legally the murder of the children was bad, but morally they deserved it far more than the Tsar They were smart, humble girls, who would have married commoners/ foreigners and led undeservedly happy lives if they were spared"
Self-proclaimed communist left humiliated after declining a one-way ticket to Cuba - "A self-professed anti-capitalist rejected an offer of a free one-way flight to a communist country of her choosing because she said nations like Cuba, North Korea and Venezuela do not truly follow the ideology. Businessman Patrick Bet-David made the proposition during a debate, telling the woman he was thinking of throwing in an extra $20,000 if the woman accepted. However, the anti-capitalist outright refused. Bet-David presented the offer as his young opponent, named Allannah, argued that the only 'incentive' of capitalism was 'survival.' 'I got an offer for you before we move on,' he said, after taking in her argument. 'If I were to give you your $2,350, which is the cost to renunciate your citizenship, and I paid you your first-class, you know, flight to whatever communist country, and $20,000, would you give up your [American] citizenship?' 'Name me a communist country,' Allannah repeatedly replied. 'Whichever communist country you want to go to,' Bet-David said. 'Cuba, we can give you Venezuela, we [can] give you North Korea - any one of those you want to go to. Choose any one of them. I'll give you [a] one-way ticket, and I'll fund it for you,' he said. A self-professed anti-capitalist rejected an offer of a free one-way flight to a communist country of her choosing during a debate that has gone viral While he was rattling off names, Allanah interrupted: 'Those aren't communist countries' - repeating the sentence several times as Bet-David listed countries governed by communist dictators. At that point, time allotted for their back-and-forth expired, allowing Allannah to leave the debate table without providing an answer. 'I like to be free, but that's why I'm anti-capitalist - because capitalism removes that choice,' she had argued earlier on. 'There is no real incentive of capitalism because the incentive is survival,' she added. 'When you get into communism, the incentive is for the common.'
Why are so many teens are Communists? : r/TeenagersButBetter - "I keep seeing many teens glazing Communism, why people can't understand that socialism and communism will never work? Even SocDems that are considered as "democratical" being authoritarian, just look at Venezuela. Left wing extremisim is getting to the point of being worse than right wing extremism (because of popularity), both brutalize minorities, both anti democratical, but left extremism only shows that the economy will collapse and everyone would live around the same level a
s under right wing extremism, but at least right extremists wouldn't kill rich and successfull and economy might survive. (To the post about right and left extremists) I can't understand how people think steal from rich and give it to the poor is good, for me it's the same as steal from the poor and give it to the rich. No matter what you are doing with things that you stole and from who you stole them will not justify your actions. If I must've decide to commit genocide and ruin my economy at the same time or just commit genocide, I'd rather just commited a genocide. I don't support extremism, no matter it's right or left, both are horrible and they must be treated on the same level"
Meme - ">We will overthrow every capitalist nation and carry out a global revolution where we will shoot every class enemy.
>WTF? Why did the reactionaries COUP us?"
Meme - "PSA: observe that socialists and communists never say they want there to be 0 poor people. Instead, they always say they want 0 rich people/"Billionaires should not exist." That's because they don't care about equality of opportunity. They really want to bring an equality of poverty to everyone (except themselves -look up Zohran Mamdani's family's net worth.)"
Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 on X - "Letters radicals at “Socialism 2025” conference are giddily discussing the destruction of America. This woman is a college professor."
Bill Ackman on X - "In two minutes, you can understand with total clarity the Socialist movement from which @ZohranKMamdani comes and why the Socialists believe that ‘decolonization’ and ‘dismantling the United States’ are the ultimate objectives. A must listen."
Naturally, they talk about Palestine too. The left wing agenda is all connected
Cuba is entirely without power following electric grid collapse : r/anime_titties - "The government doesn't seem to be very good at providing power to the people. Maybe they should rise up and take the means of power production out of the hands of the ruling class."
Cuba is entirely without power following electric grid collapse : r/anime_titties - "Communism didn’t cause this. There is no reason China is thriving and Cuba is failing while on the same system. You can blame the people in the government, you can blame overreaching policies, but communism is not when the government does stuff. France, Brazil, China, India, and even parts of the US and Germany have state-run utility services."
Commies are so deluded
Walking in Venezuela’s Shoes? | The Spectator Australia - "From a peak of US$372.59 billion in 2012, Venezuela’s economy belly-flopped to just US$42.84 billion by 2020 – an 88 per cent nosedive that qualifies as one of the most spectacular peacetime economic implosions in modern history... The unravelling kicked off with Hugo Chávez, elected in 1998 on a platform of feel-good redistribution and sticking it to ‘the elites’. ELECTED!!! At first, his so-called ‘Bolivarian Revolution’ looked like it might be onto something – poverty dropped from 61 per cent to 34 per cent between 2003-13, and income distribution briefly became the fairest in Latin America. Of course, all this glitter was built on a foundation about as sturdy as a Treasury budget projection. Then came the economic genius moves. Price controls in 2003 froze staple food prices and essentially outlawed private imports. Because nothing screams ‘sustainable policy’ like banning supply while keeping demand constant. Add in currency controls and you get a system where subsidised dollars fuelled a cottage industry of currency speculators while ordinary Venezuelans queued for toilet paper. But wait, there’s more. Chávez’s nationalisation binge made Oprah look restrained: you get expropriation, you get expropriation, everybody gets expropriation! Over a thousand firms and millions of hectares were seized, often announced on live TV with all the subtlety of a game show reveal. And not to build poles and wires to renewable energy sites. Shockingly, putting steel plants, cement companies, and telecom networks in the hands of political cronies didn’t lead to peak efficiency... Meanwhile, the central bank became a glorified money printer, churning out currency to paper over massive fiscal deficits during the oil boom. Rather than saving for the inevitable rainy day, Venezuela blew the lot like a lottery winner at a casino, racking up over $100 billion in debt. Unlike Australia’s $1 trillion. Cue the oil crash of 2014, and suddenly the emperor had no clothes. And here’s the kicker: Venezuela has the largest proven oil reserves on the planet – yes, more than Saudi Arabia – but thanks to decades of corruption, mismanagement, and driving foreign expertise out the door, it can’t even extract and refine enough to keep the lights on. Imagine sitting on a mountain of coal, sorry, gold and still managing to go bankrupt – Venezuela did exactly that... So, next time a politician promises to ‘fix everything’ with a mix of government control, central planning, and populist swagger, take a look at Venezuela’s GDP chart. It’s a reminder that the road from $372 billion to $42 billion doesn’t start with chaos – it starts with applause, an election, and a government promising that the state knows best, and a congenitally incompetent opposition."
Clearly, it's the fault of US sanctions
Alka on X - "You don't learn Communism from Marx. You learn it from hunger, from being beaten by a cop for not paying a bribe, from being falsely arrested for your caste or religion, from being told not to cry when asked to work 18 hour days. Marx simply explains why that happens."
Experiencing Communism is the way you learn about Communism. How true. Commies don't realise the irony of all this
Uri Kurlianchik on X - "Communism didn't come from Jews or Judaism. It emerged out of European left-wing philosophy, influenced by Hegel, Feuerbach, and the French Revolution. Marx and Engels grew up in Christian household and identified as Germans. Do you know what did come from the Jews? Christianity."
Katya Sedgwick on X - "Ancient Greeks were the first to think of abolition of property. There is a crypto-communist tradition in Christianity as well. In Judaism—none whatsoever."
Caroline on X - "You forgot to mention all the French socialists that came before Marx was even born: Charles Fourier, Henri de Saint Simon, Jean Jacques Rousseau (not technically French, but counts). Socialism is a French ideology later adopted by the Germans."
Mirino on X - "That’s what Hitler falsely liked to believe. Communism was first established by the French Revolution. Often a genocidal blood bath. As it spawned the Republic and decapitated the French monarchy, it is still extolled by many as being a positive and inevitable development. Even European intellectuals of that period sincerely believed this. The truth is, that had it not been for Napoléon, his ability to reunify France, create a compromise between Kingdom and Empire, and greatly improve French institutions and administration, the deep wounds of the Revolution might never have ‘almost’ healed, and the evil might never have ‘almost’ been purged."
Mike Goldman on X - "Karl Marx was born in a Lutheran family and hated Jews. Communists hate Jews. On the other hand David Ricardo was a Jew who helped establish free market economics."
Nick Freitas on X - "Do communists in America realize that they are totally free to live as communists in America with no legislative changes required? It's true. They can all get together, buy land, capitol equipment and own it all in common. They can “give according to their ability and receive according to their needs” and no one will lift a finger to stop them There's only one catch…they can't force anyone to join or subsidize them. But it turns out that's too much to ask, so they will continue to advocate violence against others because their ideology is not motivated by “equality.” It’s motivated by violent envy."
Stephen “The Yellow Dart” Schutt on X - "I knew a girl who was a communist who actually did this: live on a commune with pooled resources She lived with a bunch of artists, she was a software engineer. They would pool their money, and the artists would make their artwork Eventually she told them “ok, I have enough art” Then after awhile the whole thing fell apart. A micro Berlin Wall replay"
