There’s no shortage of “Communist Smurf” articles on the grid nowadays. Later, I’ll do an Ex Situ roundup of some of the best ones.
Contributed by Erika K.
As I was browsing through your page on the over-analyzation of cartoons I was surprised not to see something that seems so obvious to me: those lovable blue minis the Smurfs are a bunch of Communists. It’s kind of funny that in the final years of the cold war a cartoon that so blatantly stressed the Communist Manifesto would be so popular in the old U.S. of A. To prove my point, I cite:
- They live in a communal village and are discouraged to leave the village without the company of their fellow Smurfs.
- Every Smurf has his own specific job and does not deviate from that job. The job even becomes part of their personality and their name (Brainy Smurf, Handy Smurf, etc.)
- If ever a Smurf decides to strike out on his own he is cast into danger in some way of another and it is up to the collective to save him.
- And finally, Papa Smurf looks an awful lot like Karl Marx. Plus, he wears all that red.
The Smurfs are Communists, and their nemesis Gargamel is the personification of Capitalism: out for himself and profit trying to destroy the peaceful commune of Smurfs.
