Why Commies Hate Your Thanksgiving Dinner

Tags: Philosophy and Methodology, Health, Media and Culture

12/01/2020 Ryan McMaken

In 1923 Lenin released a propaganda pamphlet titled Down with the Private Kitchen. It explained how private dinners with one’s family are reactionary, bourgeois, and generally something requiring total destruction.

Original Article: “Why Commies Hate Your Thanksgiving Dinner“.

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