Time to augment our growing collection of satire about the twin horrors of socialism and communism.
Today, we’ll concentrate on the latter form of totalitarianism and mock Marxism.
The New York Times has a bizarre history of going out of its way to praise communism, often for very weird reasons.
So this bit of satire from Babylon Bee seems like it could be real.
The New York Times…prais[ed] the Soviet Union for its unprecedented gender equality at its brutal prison camps. …the Soviets provided forced labor opportunities for people of all races, genders, and orientations, pointing out that while the United States may have won the Cold War and the Space Race,
the USSR won the victories that counted: imprisoning all people equally. “They even employed female guards, LGBTQ guards, and guards of color,” the piece read. “From prison guards to prisoners, the Soviets were years and years ahead of the U.S. when it came to equality. …Many people on social media pointed out that gender equality wasn’t really something to be praised when it comes to a totalitarian regime. But the Times simply doubled down, publishing pieces that praised the Soviet Union for… The wage gap: everybody made almost no money equally…Environmental policy: constant blackouts mean smaller carbon footprint.
The last sentence of that excerpt is especially funny since it’s true.
Folks on the left have actually lauded impoverished nations because they don’t produce and consume as much.
Now let’s look at the communist version of a famous board game.
For what it’s worth, the communist version of the game isn’t quite as elaborate as the Bernie version.
Now let’s return to Babylon Bee for some additional mockery.
A study performed by researchers at Harvard University found a strong link between supporting the idea of communism and never once having even briefly opened a history book, sources confirmed Tuesday.
…“We found that of the people who advocate communism today, over 97% slept all the way through each of their history classes in elementary school, high school, and college,” head researcher Todd Devlin said in a statement accompanying the release of the study’s findings. …The study also found that the majority of modern communists who do happen across a stray piece of information showing the horrors and atrocities of real-life communism are able to quickly rationalize the historical facts away by labeling those examples “not real communism.”
Reminds me of this cartoon about AOC.
Speaking of the never-ending rationalization that communist failures weren’t “real communism,” let’s close today’s column with this link sent by a reader.
There’s a similar lather-rinse-repeat cycle among apologists for socialism.
But while it’s amusing to mock socialism and communism, let’s never forget the horrific suffering and death that these evil ideologies have produced.
