Communism – Blazingcatfur

India’s communists once ruled millions. What happened to them?

For the first time since 1957, India no longer has a single communist-led state government.

The defeat of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) in Kerala this month, after a decade in power, marked the end – at least for now – of one of the world’s most enduring experiments in democratic communism.

At their peak, India’s communist parties ruled states stretching from West Bengal to Kerala and Tripura. They impacted the lives of more than 100 million people through trade unions, peasant organisations, student wings and disciplined cadre networks.

by Blazingcatfur•May 27, 2026May 27, 2026•0•Communism, Communists, India

Two Americans Died Fighting for Filipino Communists

Last month, two Americans were killed in a foreign state’s counterterrorism operation. If Lyle Prijoles, 40, and Kai Dana-Rene Sorem, 26, had been part of a group of jihadi terrorists in the Middle East, their deaths would likely have generated national headlines. But they were in the Philippines, fighting for the New People’s Army (NPA), a decades-old Maoist insurgent group that serves as the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP).

The two appear to have died fighting: many Western reports of the incident explicitly note that Prijoles’s and Sorem’s deaths occurred in a “firefight,” implying an exchange of fire between both sides. Nor were they fighting on the side of good: both the CPP and NPA are designated foreign terrorist organizations by the State Department.

by Blazingcatfur•May 24, 2026May 24, 2026•0•Communism, Communists, Philippines, WTF?

Ukrainian Canadian Congress pushes Ottawa to ban Soviet hammer and sickle symbol

The Ukrainian Canadian Congress is urging Parliament to outlaw public displays of the Soviet hammer and sickle, arguing the Communist emblem should be treated as a hate symbol alongside Nazi and terrorist insignia already targeted in federal legislation.

In submissions to the Senate human rights committee, the Congress said the symbol continues to represent both historic atrocities committed under the Soviet Union and modern-day Russian aggression against Ukraine.

I get it but half of Ottawa probably longs for the return of the Soviet Inion.

by Blazingcatfur•May 23, 2026May 23, 2026•0•Communism, Communists

Public grocery stores are having a moment. Can they really make food more affordable?

Can public grocery stores work in Canada?

From Toronto to New York City, politicians want to tackle rising food costs with government-run grocery stores.

In the model announced by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, the city would cover construction expenses as well as rent and property taxes — ideally, with those savings passed on to shoppers — and lease to a private operator that would run the store.

by Blazingcatfur•April 20, 2026April 19, 2026•0•Communism, Communists

Douglas Todd: Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein put UBC at centre of debate over academic activism

When the University of B.C. hired left-wing activists Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein as faculty, Canada’s second-largest post-secondary institution took a firm position on a polarizing discussion over whether academics should openly advocate political causes.

Against opinion polls showing three in four Canadians believe political ideology should be kept out of universities, five years ago UBC hired filmmaker Lewis — who was elected leader of the federal NDP on March 29 — and well-known climate activist Klein.

by Blazingcatfur•April 12, 2026April 11, 2026•0•Batshit Crazy Socialist Commies, Batshit crazy Universities, Communism, Communists

Tom Mulcair: Avi Lewis is on to something with his plans to nationalize everything from pharmaceuticals to groceries

Avi Lewis is a truly unconventional politician. He has managed to make himself a champion of young Canadians, which is quite a feat given that he’ll be in his 60th year in May.

They provided a lot of energy to his campaign but also tend to vote less and that could prove a challenge.

Under his leadership, the NDP will cement its role as a safe place for equity-seeking groups, a part of its branding that was a reflection of Jack Layton’s core beliefs.

Avi is on something not on to something. Never underestimate the stupidity of today’s university students or the media’s Avi cheerleaders.

by Blazingcatfur•April 2, 2026April 2, 2026•0•"Canadian Politics", Communism, Communists

U.S. Defeats Authoritarian Communists On The Ice, Again

The United States didn’t just win a hockey game this weekend; it had another miracle on ice. Forty-six years ago, exactly, the U.S. men’s hockey team beat the Soviet Union and went on to win the Olympic gold medal. This victory symbolized American resolve amid a prolonged Cold War and a decades-long ideological battle against communism. Nine years later, the Berlin Wall fell, and soon afterward, the Soviet Union collapsed.

While Canada is no Soviet Union, the United States under President Trump is once again demonstrating what freedom looks like. For decades, the Western elite, which includes Canada, has been on what F.A. Hayek referred to as the “Road to Serfdom.” According to Hayek, the more control the government has over the economy, the less liberty there will be. Like our Founding Fathers, Hayek believed that the government itself posed the greatest threat to individual liberty.

by Blazingcatfur•February 26, 2026February 25, 2026•0•Canada, Communism, Communists, USA

A Look Back at New York City’s First Flirtation with Socialism

Before Zohran Mamdani and the Democratic Socialists of America, there were Vito Marcantonio and the American Labor Party.

Zohran Mamdani, New York City’s 112th mayor and a card-carrying member of the Democratic Socialists of America, has shown no signs of wavering in his commitment to socialism. In his inaugural address, he proudly proclaimed that he would “govern as a democratic socialist.” Mamdani’s win follows other recent Big Apple victories for DSA members and DSA-friendly politicians, including Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and State Senator Julia Salazar.

This isn’t New York City’s first dance with socialists. Though few readers may remember Vito Marcantonio and the American Labor Party, they were—like Mamdani and the DSA today—a force to be reckoned with in 1930s and 1940s New York.

by Blazingcatfur•January 18, 2026January 18, 2026•0•Communism, Communists, New York City

Children of the Long March

The pattern is clear: foreign born, Neo-Marxist academics come to America, work at major universities, teach Neo-Marxist ideas to their students, and their children, inheriting their parents’ ideologies, enter politics.

Pattern recognition — the brain’s ability to perceive similarities and relationships between objects, numbers, and events — is used in IQ tests as a way to help measure cognitive intelligence.

Here’s a pattern to consider.

Zohran Mamdani was sworn in as mayor of New York City on the steps of an old, abandoned City Hall subway station early on New Year’s Day.

by Blazingcatfur•January 11, 2026January 10, 2026•0•Communism, Communists

Maine’s Communist Senate Candidate is Already Living Under Communism

“I got older, and I became a Communist,” Graham Platner, the socialist Bernie-endorsed candidate to become Maine’s senator, posted. Platner is also living under Communism.

While his mentor, Sen. Bernie Sanders, is famous for never being able to hold down a paying job for long until he went into politics, Platner, the prep school grad and son of a lawyer and grandson of a famous architect, who claims to be working class, has done even better at making the system work for him.

h/t handy n handsome

by Blazingcatfur•January 10, 2026January 9, 2026•0•Communism, Communists, WTF?

HEINRICHS: Is Canada a communist nation?

During one of his 2023 broadcasts, Joe Rogan declared “Canada is communist,” and recently, author Kim Thuy claimed Canada is “more communist than Vietnam” while Olympian-turned-pundit Theo Fleury stated, “the Communist takeover of Canada is complete.”

Some Canadians might be alarmed and wonder how people could say such things, but could there be some truth to these remarks?

(Incognito)

by Blazingcatfur•December 28, 2025December 28, 2025•0•Canada, Communism, Communists

Black Market Religions: “Secularization is a religious process rather than an irreligious.”

Recently Utah Senator John Curtis in the Wall Street Journal wrote about a survey he conducted after the murder of Charlie Kirk: “Among the hundreds of messages that poured in, an alarming cohort spoke to the vicious cycle of online hatred they see and the isolation they feel on social media.”

These sermons of hate are delivered not by a preacher in a pulpit from which he addresses a congregation seated in pews, a community of other human beings sharing their spiritual humanity and beliefs; but by online apps and algorithms that spellbind isolated strangers with wounded souls who face inhuman screens throbbing with extremism and hate.

by Blazingcatfur•November 27, 2025November 26, 2025•0•Communism, Communists

Failing cities turn to failed socialism

Major American cities have been failing to make things better for residents after decades of Democratic rule. Rather than trying to vote for something different, those cities keep trying to elect even more left-wing Democrats. Now, they have turned to the failed ideology of socialism.

Katie Wilson, a self-described socialist, defeated incumbent Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell earlier this week. Wilson, like new New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, ran on affordability while supporting policies such as rent control, which creates housing shortages and thus increases housing costs. Like Mamdani, Wilson wants more taxes.

by Blazingcatfur•November 16, 2025November 16, 2025•0•Communism, Communists

Zohran Mamdani and the ugly rebirth of the socialism of fools

Two events have been referred to as a ‘day of celebration’ by Western leftists in recent years. There’s Zohran Mamdani’s storming to power in New York City, which radicals across the Anglo-American world hailed as a stirring victory for millennial socialism. The other? The mass murder of socialists on a kibbutz in Israel.

by Blazingcatfur•November 16, 2025November 15, 2025•0•"Islamophobia", Communism, Communists, Islamization of the West, USA

‘Mamdani’s supporters are cosplay revolutionaries’

The victory of Zohran Mamdani in New York’s mayoral election was based on hardcore identity politics and undergraduate socialism. The hipster revolutionaries have officially progressed from the college campus to the corridors of power. But do they have any idea what they’re talking about?

by Blazingcatfur•November 15, 2025November 14, 2025•0•Communism, Communists