The Smurfs = Communist?

Karl Marx stated “from each according to their ability, to each according to their needs.” Does that statement = a society like Smurf village??

Becoming a “real” Smurf = practicing “raw communism”

Same clothes, everyone has a specific task and everyone earns an equal amount of Smurf berries. No matter what, your name ends with “Smurf” and is followed by the job you do for the village. (expressionist writers of the late 1800-early 1900s did this in their writings as well)-expressionist: socialists, communists, proto-socialists…coincidence??

S.M.U.R.F.?

According to some social scholars, the word “Smurf” stands for “Socialist (or Soviet) Men Under Red Father”

The case against Papa Smurf-

Rules Smurf Village without being elected. Everyone in Smurf village is equal EXCEPT Papa Smurf > the other Smurfs…does that mean he is a dictator? AND he’s wearing red pants-the international color of communism and socialism.

Papa Smurf’s “true identity”

Stalin Marx

In Smurf village-these are the “bad” guys:

Vanity Smurf- Greedy Smurf-

Looked in a mirror Takes food for

all day, is he gay? himself, eats

Gay men were A LOT and

oppressed during represents

Communist Rule Capitalism?

The Brainy Smurf Question

Trotsky-high ranking official under Lenin, later exiled because Stalin didn’t agree with his ideas. Sometimes, Brainy’s intellectualism causes problems in Smurf Village…

Jokey Smurf-another nuisance

Jokey is always interrupting the productivity of the Smurf work day with his “booming” joke boxes!

The case for/against Smurfette-

Smurf creator, Pierre Culliford (aka: Peyo), called her “very feminine”; she’s made by their nemisis and she causes disruption in their society.

Other less than Smurfy Smurfs…

Lazy Smurf, Dreamy Smurf, Clumsy Smurf

If you are a REALLY bad Smurf-what’s your punishment?

Papa Smurf banishes you to the forest. This is similar to banishment to a Soviet Gulag in Siberia.

In Smurf village-these are the “good” guys:

Proletarian Smurfs who are hard working and who question nothing like these two-

Handy Smurf & Hefty Smurf-a military man? He’s the strongest Smurf AND the only one with a tattoo

The Villains-BOTH are “greedy capitalists”

Gargamel-Semitic features represent Stalin’s dislike of Jews…his red shoes? I have no idea.

Azarel-a “fat cat” American politician

Other random Smurf as communist exhibits…

The WORD Smurf can be used as anything, a verb and adjective, an adverb, a pronoun…another way to unify the Smurfs? Mushroom houses-does that mean communism = euphoric atmosphere??

Their theme song is even telling…

The words: “la, la, la, la, la, la”-Smurfs sing this when working on large scale projects such as dam construction.

Early Communists sing-“The International Hymn” at international party congresses and big projects like Stalin-era 5-year plans

So….what do you think?