The Smurfs as a Paradigm for Communist Society

The Smurfs are a what? Thats right I said the Smurfs are a model of how a Communist society should operate. What am I talking about you may ask? Very well then I shall explain.

The TV show "The Smurfs" provided youngsters like myself hours of entertainment as a child, but what I am now fianlly realizing is that the Smrufs were actually a well devised piece of Communist propaganda to erode American sociey from within. What follows is a list of evidence supporting my accusations:

1. Have you ever notice how much Papa Smurf looks like Karl Marx? Could this be a subtle attempt to get young children used to the sight of the Father of Modern Communism (in Soviet Russia, large posters depicting Karl Marx were carried in parades celebrating Communism.

2. As well notice that Papa Smurf wears red pants, red being the color of revolution, and of the Bolshiveck party. It is also intereting to note that while Papa Smurf wears red all of the other Smurfs wore white. In the 1918 revolution which resulted in the replacement of the Czarist government by the Communist party, there were two Communist factions battling for control, the reds (Bolshivek) and the whites(The actual name escapes me). In the end the Bolshievecks won and became the ruling class in Communist Russia. Is it not an odd coincidence that Papa Smurf, the ruling member of the Smurf community, wears red while the others all wear white.

3. A fundemental therom of Marx's Scientific Socialism as stated in the Communist Manifesto is something to the point of "from each his ability and to each his needs". Take note that each Smurf does the job that he/she is suited for i.e. Farmer grows the Smurfberries, and Baker bakes all of the Smurfberry pies. Yet all of the Smurfs get all that they need. In fact the Smurfs do not use money or even bother to barter.

4. The Smurfs were not alone in their world. You may ask how Gargamel fits into this model. Well, Communism is not alone in the world either. Indeed there are forces out there that seek to exploit the proleteraite for personal gain. The name of this evil is Capatalism. The system by which a few select bourgiaosie control all of the capital and attempt to exploit the working class for personal gain. Well, this is how Gargamel fits into this model. Gargamel represents the Capitalist bourgiaosie attempting to exploit the proletariate smurfs for personal gain. But wait you say wasn't Gargamel just trying to eat the Smurfs? You obviously didn't watch the show too well. In most every case Gargamel was trying to catch Smurfs because they were ingredients in his latest spell to create or turn something into gold. So it is evident that Gargamel is the representation of the materialistic drive behind Capitalism, to increase capital at any cost.

5. Finally there was Azrael, Gargamel's cat. This scragely old cat fits into the model as well. Azrael represents the third world despotisms that are clinging onto the coattails of first world capatalistic nations trying to grab any scraps they can. In the show Azrael followed Gargamel around trying to catch a stray Smurf or two for a meal.

I think these five points provide very strong evidence pointing to the conclusion that the TV show "The Smurfs" is indeed a paradigm for Communist society.