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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.