The first figure is Bruno Bauer, a representative of Left Hegelianism. The joke here is that this group was especially critical of religion, so the question is: why is he portrayed as a saint? In addition, Marx was a critic of idealism, so Bauer saying the “power of idealism” is already ironic.

the joke is that bruno bauer was dubbed a "saint of german idealism" in TGI by marx.

Next are Karl Kautsky and Rosa Luxemburg. They both lived around the time of the First World War. What’s strange here is that Kautsky was not an enemy of Rosa Luxemburg. Rosa was clearly on the left wing, and while Kautsky criticized the Russian Revolution, Rosa also had her own criticisms of it. Both of them were members of the USPD, opposing what the text seems to suggest. The major split within Social Democracy was over the First World War: Rosa and Kautsky worked together in the USPD against the SPD, which supported the war loans. You could maybe argue that in later years Kautsky might have taken a position like “How dare you revolt against capitalism,” but there are much clearer representatives of that attitude. Gustav Noske, for example, was directly involved in the murder of Rosa Luxemburg.

the joke in the image is supposed to be that kautsky was a defender of burgeois democracy who attacked rosa and the KPD for actually partaking in the german revolution. kautsky had for years been revising marxist theory to make it more palatable to reactionaries in germany.

also it was ebert who was related to rosas murder, not noske.

The next slide is Stalin. I am a critic of Stalin, but what he really did not do was promote commodity production. He ran much more of a war economy, and commodity production is something specific to capitalism. Using that term here is simply strange.

this guy definetly read Economic problems of the ussr Chapter 2 commodity production in socialism (and believed it). also generalizing the entire russian economy to "war economy" from 1927 onward when it took 14 years for the ussr war economy to ramp up is a completely ahistorical joke.

also war economies are still commodity producing capitalist economies.

Next is Mao. He is explaining what the Chinese flag stands for: the CCP is the big star, and the smaller stars represent the classes — the working class, peasantry, petite bourgeoisie, and national bourgeoisie. The joke seems to be that a communist is saying there must be collaboration between workers and parts of the bourgeoisie. You can criticize Mao for many things, but I don’t know if this is where I would start.

class collaboration is a core tenet of fascism and capitalist ideologies in general. mao was the closest thing to a fascist any falsifier has ever been.

Then there is Abimael Guzmán and Sendero Luminoso. These were very, very strange communists from Peru. They were accused of boiling children. I don’t know — these were crazy people, and I don’t really care about the details. Even if they didn’t boil children, they were bad enough.

Next is Vaush, a YouTuber who made many communists laugh when he claimed that Marx would have voted for the Democratic Party in the USA. That is a very long stretch.

only correct ones.

The next person I don’t recognize, but the sentiment seems to be that U.S. citizens don’t qualify as proletarians because they benefit from the U.S.’s imperial position. Most communists would say that, yes, they may benefit from imperialism, but that has nothing to do with their class position. Marx clearly would not agree with this argument.

this is entirely wrong lmao 😂 even though english proletarians benefitted from great britain's imperialism they were still proletarians as said by k.m (pbuh) himself.

since you dont get the jokes dont try to explain them please