Meme - Armand Domalewski @ArmandDoma: "Honestly the most offensive part of this take on Animal Farm is that it turns a socialist's warning of how socialist impulses can be subverted by authoritarians into a critique of capitalism. It guts the entirety of the book's message"
Joe Wrote: "Animal Farm is a critique of capitalism. The pigs (Stalinists) become equal to the humans (capitalists). I cannot believe how many people did not understand its clear message."
Readers added context they thought people might want to know: "Orwell explicitly wrote Animal Farm "against Stalin' as a critique of Soviet totalitarianism from a socialist perspective, not capitalism. The pigs represent Bolshevik leaders like Stalin/ Trotsky, contradicting the post's claim."
Brought to you by the "media literacy" crowd
Meme - "Capitalism has failed"
"Compared to real-world socialism or fictional socialism?"
"Fictional socialism"
"Communism in theory sounds like science fiction lol thats why leftists are obsessed with disney and supperhero comics"
memetic_sisyphus on X - "In 1872 an anarchist and contemporary of Marx by the name of Mikhail Bakunin wrote a scathing critique of Marx and outlined what a Marxist society would look like:
“Marx is nothing but a metaphysician, a godless worshipper of science… his ideas proceeded not from life to thought, but from thought to life… if his ideals were ever realized life would dry up, human society would be turned into a dumb servile herd… as soon as the workers seize power they would cease to be workers, they would be former workers… they would no longer represent the people but themselves and their own pretensions to govern the people. Anyone who denies this is not at all familiar with human nature… the new rulers would likely not be workers at all, they would be learned or scientific scholars of Marx’s ilk, forming a government of intellectuals that would likely become the most oppressive offensive and contemptuous kind in the world. They would have to concentrate the reigns of government in a strong hand, because the “ignorant” people require strong supervision. They will create a single state bank, concentrating in their hands all commercial, industrial, agricultural and even scientific production… the real aim of Marxism is to overthrow existing governments and regimes so as to create their own dictatorship on their ruins.”
This all came true whenever Marxists seized power, and they always seized power, never receiving it from the ballot box. We don’t teach this, and those same forces that viewed the ashes as exciting, the ruin of society as a good thing are growing. We have to put an end to it."
Meme - "PROTESTS IN THESE COUNTRIES *Western countries*
Communist: LONG LIVE THE REVOLUTION!
PROTESTS IN THESE COUNTRIES *non-Western countries*
Communist: CIA COLOR REVOLUTION!"
Meme - "When socialists say workers should be part owners of their companies
That's what the stock is for!"
Meme - wanye @wanyeburkett: "Every communist argument starts with the following sentiment: "Assume a sufficient supply of homes/food/etc: OK, here's how to distribute it"
Dogs don't have thumbs @MoriockP: ""Is produced", passive voice The food just falls from the sky, and all we need is some super smart people at an NGO to tell us what to do with it"
Meme - The New York Times: "More than 100 vehicles slipped and crashed into one another in a chain-reaction pileup on a Michigan interstate on Monday."
Jen HR: "Gosh, certainly this is not a consequence of capitalism..."
Clearly, communist regimes can control the weather
Rock Chartrand🤑 on X - "Karl Marx was the first contradiction of his own philosophy. He condemned exploitation while living off Engels’ money for decades and refusing steady work. He preached moral critique of capitalism while fathering a child with his family’s maid, then having Engels claim the child to avoid scandal. The maid was abandoned. The child erased. His wife Jenny endured years of poverty, illness, and instability while he wrote about human liberation. This wasn’t theory failing in practice. It failed at home first. Two of his daughters died by suicide. Eleanor Marx, his closest intellectual ally, killed herself after years of ideological devotion bound up with personal despair. Laura Marx and her husband ended their lives together, framing it as a rational decision before becoming “burdens.” This matters because Marxism didn’t just collapse historically. It collapsed personally. The man who promised emancipation couldn’t sustain a family without charity, couldn’t take responsibility for his own actions, and left behind dependence, denial, and despair."
Meme - "KARL MARX
NEVER RAN A COMPANY
NEVER HELD POLITICAL OFFICE
WAS NEVER SELF-SUFFICIENT
NEVER EVEN HELD A JOB
EVERY APPLICATION OF HIS THEORY HAS ENDED IN MASS MURDER
DESPITE ALL THIS, HE IS IDOLIZED BY THE LEFT"
Meme - "70 YEARS AGO TOLD YOU THAT SOCIALISTS AND COMMUNISTS WERE TAKING OVER THE SCHOOLS, COURTS, NEWS MEDIA AND EVERYONE LAUGHED AT ME! Joe McCarthy"
LHGrey™️ on X - "If we actually taught raw, unfiltered history in schools...the blood-soaked, soul-crushing truth instead of this sanitized, revisionist horseshit...the Left would lose half its recruiting pool overnight. Teach kids what the Bolsheviks actually did: a fanatical minority of intellectuals and agitators, drunk on Marxist poison, overthrew a crumbling regime in 1917 promising “peace, land, and bread.” What they delivered was the Red Terror...Cheka death squads executing 100,000–250,000 without trial, shooting priests in the street, drowning officers tied to planks, starving entire villages into submission. Teach the psychology: how Lenin’s “vanguard” justified any atrocity as “historically necessary,” how useful idiots in the West swooned over the “workers’ paradise” while millions were worked to death in the first Gulag camps. Then show how that same Bolshevik machine birthed Stalin’s Holodomor...engineered famine in Ukraine that starved 4–6 million while grain was exported. Mao’s Great Leap Forward that killed 30–45 million in the name of “equality.” Pol Pot’s killing fields where wearing glasses got you executed. Every single time. Teach the visceral pattern: utopian promises always slide into mass graves because power concentrates, resentment is weaponized, and humanity breaks under ideology. Teach that the road to hell is paved with moral grandstanding and envy dressed as justice. But no. Instead we get 1619 Project fanfiction, endless white guilt seminars, and lessons that paint America as uniquely evil while glossing over the fact that every civilization had slavery, conquest, and brutality...ours just happened to end it while others still practice it today. We don’t teach the why of human nature: tribalism, the will to power, how demagogues exploit the eternal human weakness for free shit and revenge fantasies. So when some blue-haired activist screams “eat the rich” or “defund the police” or “from the river to the sea,” millions of historically illiterate kids nod along because they’ve never seen what those slogans actually produce when tried in the real world. They’ve never smelled the mass graves. If we taught real history...ferocious, ugly, precise../they’d recognize the Bolshevik playbook being dusted off and run again right in front of them. Instead, we raise generations of useful idiots who think they’re on the right side of history while marching straight into the same fucking slaughterhouse their grandparents escaped. The Left needs historical amnesia to survive. That’s why they fight so hard to control the curriculum. Wake the fuck up. Teach the truth, blood, horrors and all, or watch the cycle repeat with fresh corpses. Fuck this revisionist, sanitized, soft bullshit. We are raising a nation of fucking pussies and useful idiots. 💀🔪"
Meme - memetic sisyphus @memeticsisyphus: "For most of the Soviet unions history they had a 6 day work week, except for several prolonged periods where production had to be increased so they switched to a 7 day work week."
mari/cohe @noinconsistency: "dudes will say this and then call communists stupid"
autist @litteralyme0: "-Study for 20 years
-Work for 40 years
-Free for 5-10 years
-Die
It's a scam bro"
Meme - memetic_sisyphus @memeticsisyphus: "When you teach the history of the Cold War without mentioning the Soviets, the CIA just randomly targets countries and destabilizes them for no reason. Now that the Cold War has ended it doesn’t make any sense why they would stop. Of course if you know they were countering Soviet operations then their activities make sense and this post of hers is fucking retarded."
Dr. Nifkin @drnifkin_OB: "People are aware that destabilization is the goal right"
superliberalism: "What does the CIA even gain from this? This conspiracy doesn't even make any sense."
Dr. Nifkin @drnifkin_OB: "Oh yeah this is cia-backed"
Of course, the cope is that whatever evil the Soviets did, it was just in self-defence
Marxism — The Downfall of Socialism - "Although they believe Socialism is the seizure of the state, and Communism is the society they want, Marx himself interchangeably used the words, stating Socialism was ‘Lower Communism”."
Clearly, Karl Marx was clueless about what Communism and Socialism were
Meme - Chris Freiman: "That's because under communism we wouldn't have smartphones in the first place"
Existential Comics @existentialcoms: "Under communism, there will be no annoying ads on mobile websites that move the content of the page like 4 seconds after it loads, right as you are about to click on something."
Thread by @sfliberty on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Noam Chomsky defended the Khmer Rouge while they were killing 25% of Cambodia's population. He kept his position at MIT. His reputation kept growing. His books kept selling. Thomas Sowell predicted this would happen. He explained exactly why it always does.🧵
Chomsky's linguistics work was genuinely brilliant. It made him one of the most cited academics alive and gave him a platform far beyond his field. He decided, so, to use that platform not to side with the oppressed, but to cast doubt on genocide survivors. When the Khmer Rouge took Cambodia, Chomsky didn't defend the victims. He questioned their testimony. In 1977, he and Edward Herman published "Distortions at Fourth Hand" in The Nation, arguing that Western media was exaggerating the killings to justify U.S. intervention. He wrote that refugee accounts deserved "great care" because refugees are "subject to pressure." He even dismissed François Ponchaud, a French priest who documented the massacres in ”Cambodia: Year Zero”, as unreliable. Called his figures inflated.
Paul Johnson tracked what happened next in Intellectuals (2007). Chomsky's position shifted four times as evidence mounted.
— First: no massacres, just propaganda.
— Then: small-scale killings, exploited by cynical humanitarians.
— Then: killings were real, but caused by American war crimes.
— Then: the Khmer Rouge weren't real Marxists anyway.
The evidence kept changing, but America was always the villain. No retraction. No apology. No lost position. No revoked degree. No serious professional consequence of any kind. Chomsky remained an Institute Professor at MIT. The Cambodia episode became a footnote in his biography, not a mark against his reputation. He kept giving lectures. His books kept getting assigned. What matters here is who this protection applies to. Chomsky sadly isn’t the anomaly. Leftist intellectuals who get things catastrophically wrong keep their chairs.
Sowell noticed this pattern and named the mechanism behind it. In Intellectuals and Society, he observed that intellectuals are the only professionals never judged by consequences. A doctor who kills patients loses their license. An engineer whose bridge collapses faces lawsuits. An intellectual whose ideas contribute to millions of deaths writes another book. Nobody calls him to account. Nobody takes the degree back. The next conference invitation still arrives. Sowell's point was not that intellectuals are uniquely evil. It was that they operate inside a system with no penalty for being wrong, which means being wrong carries no cost worth avoiding.
Marxist-inspired regimes killed between 60 and 100 million people in the 20th century. The Soviet Union. Maoist China. The Khmer Rouge. North Korea. These were not fringe misreadings of Marx. They were direct political applications, built by people who read him, cited him, and named him as their foundation. And yet Marxism remains a legitimate intellectual framework in sociology, history, political science, and literature departments across the Western world. Professors who identify as Marxists hold endowed chairs without controversy.
Now consider Ayn Rand. No regime. No atrocity. No gulag. No famine. No political program that killed anyone, anywhere, at any point in history. Rand is treated as intellectually unserious by many of the same academics who assign Marx with reverence and cite Chomsky as a moral authority. The thinker whose followers killed nobody is a punchline. The thinker whose framework justified more state violence than any other secular ideology in history is a syllabus staple. The difference is not about rigor. Rand was a rigorous thinker who defended capitalism. Marx was a rigorous thinker who gave cover to people who built gulags. Only one of them remains embarrassing to cite in a faculty meeting.
The people who got it right were punished for it.
– Orwell struggled to publish Animal Farm because it offended Soviet sympathizers in British publishing.
– Camus was shunned by the French left for denouncing labor camps. Sartre mocked him publicly.
– Solzhenitsyn was expelled from his country for documenting what Chomsky was busy doubting.
All of them were vindicated by history. None of them received an apology.
Paul Johnson studied Rousseau, Marx, Tolstoy, Sartre, and Chomsky over decades of research. His conclusion was blunt: "One of the principal lessons of our tragic century is: beware intellectuals. Not merely should they be kept well away from the levers of power, they should also be objects of particular suspicion when they seek to offer collective advice." Johnson was not arguing against thinking. He was arguing against the specific habit of rewarding thinkers regardless of what their thinking produced. The 20th century gave us enough evidence to take that argument seriously.
Chomsky denied a genocide and kept his chair. Marx inspired regimes that killed tens of millions and kept his syllabus. Rand's followers never harmed anyone, and she lost her reputation. What does that tell you about how intellectual credibility actually gets assigned?"
Εcon Bro on X - "Socialism is the theory that if you abolish profit, bread will somehow bake itself out of moral superiority."
Rock Chartrand🤑 on X - "Capitalism is far more social than socialism ever was. Capitalism is built on voluntary interaction. Every transaction requires agreement, cooperation, and mutual benefit. You don’t get anything unless you offer value to someone else. It’s constant, peaceful coordination between individuals. Socialism replaces that with coercion. It doesn’t ask, it mandates. It doesn’t rely on agreement, it relies on enforcement. The ‘social’ part isn’t people working together, it’s people being forced into the same arrangement whether they agree or not. So one system runs on consent and cooperation. The other runs on compliance and control. That’s what real anti social behavior looks like."
Rock Chartrand🤑 on X - "Communists like to say capitalism is slavery and communism will set everyone free. They usually leave the explanation there, which is convenient, because the details are less flattering. Slavery is when you’re forced to work and not allowed to refuse. Capitalism is when two people agree to trade because both think they’re better off. Then comes the clever line: “Under capitalism you must work or starve.” Yes. That tragic condition was imposed on mankind by nature long before economists arrived. Fields still have to be planted, houses built, and food produced no matter what political slogan is fashionable. The difference is simple. Under capitalism you’re free to decide how, where, and with whom you work. Under communism someone else decides for you. Calling voluntary trade slavery requires a remarkable talent for confusing being forced by a master with being required by reality to earn your supper."
Stacy is Right on X - "Why do "Democratic Socialists" like AOC and Bernie Sanders assume the least motivated, lowest-effort members of our society will grind away for the "common good" when they clearly won't even grind for their own good? It's actually mind numbingly retarded."
Marco Foster on X - "Graham Platner: “Every single breath we take discussing culture war stuff is a breath we are not talking about universal healthcare. It’s a breath we are not talking about going after wealth where it’s been hoarded. Not talking about breaking up corporate monopoly power. That’s what we need to be focusing on. But we do not sell people out. A politics that is willing to sell anyone out will eventually sell everyone out”"
Ryan James Girdusky on X - "He doesn’t want you to know he identified as a communist, that he taught firearm training to a socialist paramilitary group, that he said women who are sexually assaulted should take responsibility, and whites in rural parts of Maine are too stupid to know what’s good for them."
Sandy Petersen 🪔 on X - "We had gotten so much propaganda from our masters from the 1920s on about how the commies weren't that bad that it took Herculean efforts to convince people of simple and obvious things, such as the Holodomor. The New York Times gave a prize to the guy who covered up that famine (which still stands). I talked to a guy in the 1970s who'd lived in Hong Kong in the 60s, and he told us that during the Cultural Revolution literally hundreds of corpses floated into the bay from (presumably) Guangzhou, where they had been murdered by revolutionary cadres. He asked me, "Can you imagine how many were killed that hundreds floated 70 miles downriver?" Did we hear anything about this in America or Western Europe? Almost nothing. That's why we still have communists in America. Nazism was exposed completely. No one wants to be called a Nazi. But communism is still thought of as in some way defensible."
Meme - Tom Chapman @realTomChapman: "As a Holocaust educator I can confirm you couldn't be more wrong. Communists & socialists were the first groups rounded up by the Nazis & hauled off to concentration camps. I'm told you're a Canadian member of parliament. How embarrassing for you..."
The Bolsheviks sent the Menshiviks to the gulag. This is proof that the Bolsheviks weren't socialists. Brilliant logic!
Meme - "r/communism101
How would collections work in communism? Who determines what's private and what's personal property determined
I have a funko pop collection that I really like. And I'm really worried I'll loose it in communism, be it might be seen as rent seeking. I'll pinky promise I won't eventually sell it for profit, they're solely for my admiration."
Meme - RTSG @RTSG_Main: "There is nothing more mighty than Communism."
Rock Chartrand @RockChartrand: "Mighty enough to empty shelves and fill gulags. When it runs pure, people starve. When it borrows markets, it survives. That's quiet surrender to reality. Most who praise it in free countries aren't volunteering for collective farms. They're assuming someone else will produce while they redistribute. An ideology that can't function without force or borrowed markets is dependent."
Meme - Peter McCormack 🏴☠️🇬🇧🇮🇪 @PeterMcCormack: "This chart is the reason why every single socialist must be laughed at and shamed over and over. A wealthy nation tried socialism and destroyed its economy - Venzeuela. A socialist country tried capitalism and created prosperity - Poland. Socialists, all of them, are fundamentally stupid people. They have a childish approach to economics, ideologically stuck to an idea WHICH CAN'T WORK and has NEVER WORKED. Despite the wealth of evidence through the entirety of history, they stick to this stupid idea - an idea which creates poverty, misery and death. Why? Because they can't get their stupid heads around the idea that some people get rich. Shame them, over and over, laugh in their faces and shame their stupidity."
"GDP per capita, 1931 to 2022. *Poland and Venezuela similar in 1931, Venezuela overtaking Poland until 2000 and Poland surging ahead after 2000 as Venezuela falls off a cliff*"
Meme - "Leftists: JeSuS wOuLd HaVe BeEn A sOciALiSt.
Scripture: "If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat."
Leftists: *shocked PIkachu*"
马利国 Comrade Bae 😊🇿🇦🇨🇳🇷🇺 🇵🇸 on X - "Nobody learns communism from a book. We’re all born communists and then indoctrinated into capitalism. If you don’t believe me, ask a 5 year old child should we give homeless people houses, hungry people food and sick people medicine? Theory later help us to unlearn the bullshit"
5 year olds are paragons of wisdom. That's why if they want to eat candy all day we all should eat candy all day.
Commies admitting communism is a childish fantasy.
