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The first of May for most people means flowers and springtime, but for Communists it’s May Day, a time to wear red, scrawl something on a poster and shout at people at a big rally.
And perhaps block traffic.
May Day 2025 is being billed as a major protest turnout event. In New York City, the Democratic Socialists of America, the Communist Party, a few useless unions, and Bend the Arc will be rallying in the streets to “stop the billionaire takeover”. Since Bend the Arc is run and funded by Alex Soros, a billionaire scion notorious for his Hampton parties, the takeover is already here.
George Soros, Alex’s dad, put his billions to work building up the American Left.
The Working Families Party, which benefited from hundreds of thousands of dollars in Soros money for its candidates, is another participant in the May Day anti-billionaire rallies. Its Instagram motto is “in this house we bully billionaires.” A video put out by WFP claims that the fight is “regular folk against the ultra wealthy” and warns against a “government run by billionaires.” That didn’t seem to be a problem when Soros handed out $20 million to a WFP coalition or when his pro-crime Justice and Public Safety PAC made the WFP’s New York party its third largest recipient of campaign cash in the 2020 election cycle or when the same Soros PAC provided $700,000 to the campaign of a pro-crime WFP prosecutor in Texas.
The WFP doesn’t bully billionaires: it’s wholly owned by a family of billionaires.
The NYCLU, another participant in the anti-billionaire rally, is a revolving door for Soros people, including Aryeh Neier, who went on to be the first president of Soros’ Open Society Institute, and Sebastian Krueger, NYCLU’s comms chief who formerly served that role for Open Society.
Swing Left, yet another participant, was backed by the Democracy Alliance whose members include not only Soros, but Progressive Insurance chair Peter Lewis, a billionaire, Taco Bell heir Rob McKay, San Francisco billionaire Tom Steyer, and Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, but now hosts a “Mothers and Others Standing Against Bullies, Billionaires and fascism”.
The Center for Popular Democracy will be holding a ‘virtual’ May Day rally against “billionaire profiteers”. The Center was funded by Hansjörg Wyss, the richest man in Switzerland who made his money through medical technology that ended up killing 5 people after admitting to illegally experimenting on its patients. That’s a whole other kind of billionaire profiteering.
Other “popular democracy” donors to the Center include the Ford Foundation, with assets of over $16 billion, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation of the Hewlett-Packard co-founder. There’s nothing popular or democratic about any of this.
The May Day rallies are going to send a message to Trump, Musk “and the rest of the billionaire oligarchs trying to destroy our democracy” warned Saqib Bhatti, a Pakistani Muslim immigrant who heads the Action Center on Race & the Economy. The Center, also known as ACRE, was funded through the ARCA Foundation started by R. J. Reynolds tobacco heiress Nancy Susan Reynolds, and presided over by Smith W. Bagley, the next heir in line, a major Democrat donor, once indicted for stock manipulation (Biden appointed his wife Elizabeth as the ambassador to Brazil) and the foundation is now headed by the latest tobacco heiress: Nicole Bagley.
R.J. Reynolds brands include everything from Newports to Camels to Lucky Strike cigarettes.
Saqib Bhatti, Acre’s head, funded by a billionaire’s ‘memorial grant’ rails against billionaires and will rail some more at the May Day rally even though he owes his career to them which included a fellowship from the radical leftist Nathan Cummings Foundation funded by by the Cummings heirs of the Sara Lee company.
Billionaires: what would the Left do without ‘em?
The anti-billionaire May Day rallies are a billionaire-funded astroturf campaign. They’re not actually against billionaires or even against billionaires buying political influence. They’re radical leftists funded by leftist billionaires insincerely attacking Trump using anti-capitalist rhetoric.
Subtract the billionaires, millionaires, heirs and heiresses to famous companies and the American Left would consist of a few hundred Marxist grad students and the leaders of some of the more useless unions who are also showing up and holding their own May Day events.
Billionaires built the American Left. They provided employment for thousands of Marxist grad students who became professional full-time activists. They created professional organizations and used the dot com model to create accelerators, funding models, consultants and an entire complicated network of organizations that make the old Communist Party look crude and clunky.
The May Day rallies carry the logos of hundreds of organizations, many of them fake or shells for other groups, to manufacture the illusion of a movement. The old school Communist front groups long ago went digital with a social media presence, bots and interchangeable employees who move between one front group and another. These aren’t new ideas, but the slickness and sleekness, the corporate logos and the sheer complexity of it is corporate Communism.
It turns out that the revolution will be brought to you by, if not Xerox, but by Hewlett Packard, it may not go well with Coke, but it will go well with a Camel, and it will not only be televised but featured on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and Twitter , it will be hailed as transformative by NBC, CBS and CNN, because the revolution is fake. It’s as fake as billionaires funding anti-billionaire rallies to convince the American people to oppose the billionaires they don’t like.
All the leftist agitprop rhetoric about fighting billionaires to save democracy is an attempt to distract the public from the fact that they are a plot by billionaires to destroy democracy.
The Left has never been a movement of the people. It’s an elitist psyop led by the children of the rich to seize power and destroy the power of the people. Its heroes and leaders, whether Lenin, Mao or Che came from the elites, not the working class, and the only outcome of its revolutions was the destruction of the hopes and the future of the farmers and workers they championed.
After suffering a stinging defeat in 2024 from the working class, the billionaire-funded Communists want to pretend that they’re against billionaires and for the working class, but no matter how many grad students wave posters in public squares, no one is buying it anymore.
The Fog of their Hypocracy is so thick you can cut it with aa Knife
I have often wondered just what a rich man thinks he will accomplish by supporting those who will eventually strip him of his riches?
“They’re radical leftists funded by leftist billionaires insincerely attacking Trump using anti-capitalist rhetoric.”
We shouldn’t flatter these billionaires by calling them leftists. They are simply rich people who want power for themselves.
The Democratic Party is the party of America’s ruling class and the credentialed aristocracy that gets its privilege from providing intellectual cover for the ruling classes obscene hold on power. The rot in universities extends far beyond the most extreme posturing by self proclaimed left wing professors. While claiming to represent the downtrodden, it obsesses about maintaining its own privileges.
They have done little to contain costs. The elite institutions need to be doged. They have raised tuition at twice the rate of inflation, replaced full time tenure track faculty by low paid adjuncts who teach the vast number of course hours. The contingent faculty end up teaching multiple sections spread over as many as three universities to barely provide a middle income standard of living for their families. In the meantime, the full professors teach maybe three or four hours a week and are never held accountable for their lack of contribution. The highest paid faculty are tenured full professors who in too many cases haven’t done research in years. Tenure is supposed to protect academic freedom but the sad truth is that it mostly protects freedom of indolence.
At the top of this pyramid are the administrators who make hundreds of thousands of dollars a year and spend their time justifying their positions of privilege by keeping faculty busy doing busywork that contributes nothing to either student learning or academic knowledge. The DEI bureaucracy is but one part of this corruption.
The backlash against Trump is not really about him. It is that he has exposed their selfishness and corruption and they hate him for it.
Excellent, superb article, thanks !!!!!
The abstract picture is billionaire leftist Oligarchs funding and controlling phony leftist movements.
Can see it as far back as Ancient Rome, rich Oligarchs acting in their own interests acting together to influence politics. Goes on all through history.
Mr. Greenfield. I love your stuff. But…”Swing Left, yet another participant, was backed by the Democracy Alliance whose members include not only Soros, but Progressive Insurance chair Peter Lewis, a billionaire…”
I knew Peter Lewis. I worked for him. He was a college roomate of Ralph Nader at Princeton. He was a friend of George Soros and Albert Gore, Jr. But he assumed room temperature more than ten years ago.
Damn, did I miss May Day again this year. Looks like I’ll be missing all of the fake manufactured “holidays” of the Left again this year like
Black History Month
Trans awareness day/month
Gay awareness day/month
Pride month
Juneteenth
MLK day
Asian Pacific awareness month
Hispanic Heritage month
Women’s International Day/Month
Women’s History Month
Labor Day
May Day
Don’t feel bad about missing it….I keep missing “white male, heterosexual, married, employed taxpayer day” every year???
That would mean you celebrate all of the other B.S. The normals don’t have to celebrate white male, heterosexual, married, employed taxpayer day”.
We live it.
Non sequitur much? Please explain how not celebrating one day
would mean you necessarily celebrate all the other B.S. I celebrated St. Patrick’s Day. Does it follow that I therefore must celebrate all the other days? Being capable of reading critically, I’m confident the post was sarcasm. Commence with the evasion, name-calling and gay joke.
St. Patrick’s Day? Did you get drunk? I sure did. I think I know who the chick was, though. One I dumped a few months ago but I called her because I was drunk. Not so bad. After she gets tired out she likes to watch movies on Netflix. I can live with that.
Non sequitur enough? 🙂
And who is in who’s head, ritchie? Was I talking to you? Feeling lonely and ignored? Need some attention?
You know ritchie, you spend so much time trying to convince us you aren’t gay I’m starting to think you just may be gay. That line was mildly amusing the first time. By the fourth time it’s just annoying.
But I will say this…… you are the personification of the “born to be mild” guy”. Go put on a Neil Young record or some New Age sounds and start working on your very important Sowell project. You will feel better.
I didn’t know there were so many fake gay holidays. I’m glad I have a lock on my door..
Amazing, isn’t it.
I need to add Kwanzaa and Earth Day to the list.
Thanks Jeff.
It’s like the dog chasing a car – what does he do if he catches it? If these billionaires succeed, they’ll be put up against a wall and shot as “enemies of the people” and “wreckers” by the people they brought into power.
Yeah, that often happened in Ancient Rome.
They had guns in ancient Rome? 😛 Just kidding.
They did have guns, just didn’t know about gun powder. Catapults and such. I was reading about Pompey vs Caesar and they had machines that fired hundreds of arrows in a short time. I love reading about Ancient technology 🙂
Yes, the Roman Empire was awesome. When it went under, Europe got the Dark Ages. Yes, the Eastern Roman Empire in Constantinople lasted a long time afterwards but Italy was fucked. There were a surprising amount of innovations during the Middle Ages but overall it was starvation, pestilence and other miserable shit.
Boy, is it nice to live in the modern world and have good health care. Dentists, too. Fuck that Doc Holliday shit.
I’ve seen the pliers and saws from the Revolutonary War used to yank teeth out and cut off limbs. Yikes! Battleground Park in North Carolina. There’s a good little museum there and it’s still in a forest with oak trees surrounding it so big you wouldn’t believe. There were even deer running around there. There was a big battle there back in the day but I’m too lazy to look up the name. The US rebels lost but they killed a lot more British than their losses.
The black plague? I met a leper in Indonesia. I gave her some money. I figured she needed it more than I did. The Indos around us treated her like, well, a leper but she was grateful because I treated her like the human being she is or was. I touched her too, so she would feel like a real human being. I’m pretty much immune to everything.
I encountered a leper in India. Quite a shock.
You’re just trying to make me feel good.
Thanks Daniel, another brilliant article, you are truly a gifted person of intellect.
This is what I don’t get. Billionaires are billionaires because of Capitalist USA, and they want to destroy the very system and nation that allowed them to become billionaires? Biting the hand that feeds them is not a good idea.
Do they want to ensure no one else becomes billionaires? All that money and all that greed is not prudent for one’s eternal life.
They seem to control the courts as well as well over 60% of elected officials.
DOGE is unearthing the corruption of all mentioned.
The game goes on…
Under capitalism, they had to work and take risks. which means they had to supply goods and services in order to attract the wealth of those poorer than themselves. Under fascism/communism, they need only command the wealth of those weaker than themselves. It then becomes a competition among themselves as to who dies with the greatest wealth.
Same problem as Ancient Greece and Rome. Insatiable greed drives them on to their own destruction.
The Commies always came out for the workers using them as their Useful Idiots I am sure Stalin Castro and Mao did
Maybe the Communists are still pining for the old way of doing things,
that is, class warfare. Times are still financially hard for most Americans
so maybe the Commies are tapping into that angst by stoking up
resentment against rich billionaires. The fact that they themselves are
billionaires is typical evil Communism.
Commie Obama turned the American people against themselves based
on racial division – because traditionally it’s been far easier for ordinary
Americans to move up economically than for people in other countries to
do so. The Communists knew that class warfare as a tactic of demoralization
and division wouldn’t really fly in the USA.
Still – if an opportunity to promulgate class warfare presents itself, the
Commies will readily seize it. Or an opportunity for dividing us such as the
anti-Semitic, Free Palestine, pro-Islam protests. Just sayin’.
Is it so strange? He’s a Jew who hates Jews. Just another example of self-hate. The problem isn’t his money, it’s his twisted mentality.
Neiman-Marxists.
Daniel, Dig the term ‘corporate communism’ – although, there lurks fascism, collusion of big biz & big gov. My take is all the infernal permutations of socialism, i. e., bolsheviks, fascists, nazis, maoists, commies, eco-fascists, woke L-regressive, et al, are mentally sick & spiritually benighted. Many are misguided, most are evil. Some 200 million murdered men, women & children in the gulag from Auschwitz to Siberia, are not available for comment.
The voluntary mandatory May 1 marches in Prague when I was a kid still make me sick. Skipped most of them. The commies punished me by banning me joining the Red pioneers. I hated the org anyway. The commie punks beat me in grade school 10 to 1 encouraged by the stalinist old hag principal. Some Red paradise of shinning tomorrows.
Lastly, a memo to Pam Bondi. You’re not a prom queenie but US AG. Act like it. Are indictments of the black robed shyster lawyers coming soon or are you afraid of the shrill wokesters? We know what you did to G. Zimmerman 12 y ago with your corrupt prosecution.
Bravo, Daniel, Bravo!
DEPORT SOROS AND SON NOW!!
“May Day?” Isn’t that Lenin’s birthday? Fuck that mother fucker.
Thanks Jeff. I knew one of those days was Lenin’s Birthday. Turns out that it is “Earth Day” that is Lenin’s Birthday.
Yes, you’re right. Lenin was born on May 22nd, and “Earth Day” is definitely on the 22nd. I remember I got into a flame war with a bunch of lefties about that on Weakapedia, back when I was dumb enough to think you can treat those freaks in their underoos drinking hot cocoa from their mommies as real people. I’m surprised I forgot. I hope I’m not going Biden! 😛
Meh. A fake encyclopedia complied by the hard left. Worse than worthless.
They erased Nancy’s mafioso history. It used to be obvious. I’ve checked back 4 times or more and each time it was whitewashed further.