[Editor's Note: There's no shortage of "Communist Smurf" articles on the grid nowadays. Eventually, 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.
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The fact that they all dress alike also smacks of Communism.
They are Socialists, not Communists…
suffice to say that popa smurf is their leader. if anything, it is totalitarian or secular cult.
he not so much a leader. more like a person just to make sure everything is running smoothly. and in a communist society someone has to make sure its running smoothly because people get greedy and take too much of what they need and in real world its usually the government who makes sure that the communist society is running along. so your case about totalitarian or secular cult is terribly false
They all also share the same woman, communal wives and what not.
Smurfs are Americans, conforming in dress and culture. The each stick to their own jobs, and work well together. Gargamel is the Corporatist, Hell bent on destroying the order of the common folk and stealing their resources! Google, torrent the movie, “Who Stole The Electric Car” to make this analogy come to life. and remember, in America everybody loves Rock ‘N Roll music – comformity! There is no indication of sex and sharing of the same women, but the figurehead woman is wonderfully respected, much as we don’t all share physically in Barbie, but she is a figurehead American female! Smurfs are about a brotherhood, much like the American military, street gangs, and religious and political groups in America – it is a “mammal” thing we do!
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