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| Author | Jack Posobiec and Joshua Lisec |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | American Politics |
| Genre | Nonfiction |
| Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Publication date | 9 July 2024 |
| Publication place | United States |
| ISBN | 978-1648210853 |
Unhumans: The Secret History of Communist Revolutions (and How to Crush Them) is a 2024 American political andpolemical book byJack Posobiec and co-author Joshua Lisec which was aNew York Times bestseller.[1] It features a foreword bySteve Bannon and a blurb fromJD Vance.
The core thesis of the book is that theAmerican left intends to terrorize and subjugate the United States under acommunistdictatorship.[2][better source needed] In their telling, they are "unhumans."
For the last couple centuries, we’ve known them as communists. Socialists, with extra steps. And of course, leftists. Radicals and revolutionaries as well. A hundred years ago, MarxistLeninists, then more recently, Cultural Marxists. Even as, without irony and not as a joke, “progressives.” For the purposes of this book, we will call them the unhumans.[3]
It has aforeword written bySteve Bannon.[4]
In it the authors laud the contributions ofFrancisco Franco,Chiang Kai-shek,Augusto Pinochet,Joseph McCarthy,Julius Caesar, andElon Musk to what they frame as an existential struggle against the dark forces of communism.[4]
The book was endorsed byJD Vance, who wrote a coverblurb for the book. The book features praise from public figures, includingTucker Carlson,[a]Donald Trump Jr.,[b]Michael Flynn,[c] andRobert Stacy McCain.[d][5][6]
In the past, communists marched in the streets waving red flags. Today, they march throughHR, college campuses, and courtrooms to wagelawfare against good, honest people. InUnhumans, Jack Posobiec and Joshua Lisec reveal their plans and show us what to do to fight back.
— JD Vance, cover blurb,Unhumans: The Secret History of Communist Revolutions (and How to Crush Them)[7]
Reviewers have criticized the book.Michelle Goldberg decried the book as "fascist" and an "anti-democratic screed", notes that it lauds Franco and Pinochet, and claims that "The book argues that leftists don’t deserve the status of human beings – that they are, as the title says, unhumans – and that they are waging a shadow war against all that is good and decent, which will end in apocalyptic slaughter if they are not stopped".[7]
David Corn also disliked the book, noting with disapprobation that it includes the Americancivil rights movement among unhuman plots, along withBlack Lives Matter, and gives quotes from the book including "There is no way to reason with those who manipulate the have-nots en masse to loot and to shoot. They simply hate those who are good-looking and successful" and that these "ugly liars who hate and kill" are (in league withBig Tech) undertaking the "distinct revolutionary movement we are witnessing in the modern-dayWest". The book, according to Corn, describes theJanuary 6 United States Capitol attack as afalse-flag trap sprung as a "purge of Trump supporters... from public life", and also advises thatlaw enforcement inred areas should targetantifa, Black Lives Matter, and someNGOs, as "It is time to stop playing by rules they won’t".[8]
David Gardner also criticized the book, citing passages such as "By becoming consumed bynihilism, unhumans oppose everything that makes up humanity. As they are opposed to humanity itself..." and "Our study of history has brought us to this conclusion: Democracy has never worked to protect innocents from the unhumans".[9]
Nathan J. Robinson wrote "It is perhaps the most paranoid, hateful, and terrifying book I have ever picked up. (I say this as someone who has readMein Kampf.)"[10]
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