Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - July 07, 2025


The Year of the Unhumans


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Jack Posobiec and Joshua Lysak celebrate the one year anniversary of the release of their best selling book, Unhumans: The Secret History of Communist Revolutions and How to Crush Them. Jack and Joshua discuss the impact of the book and the impact it had on their lives.

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00:00:50.360 Christ is King.
00:00:51.920 I picked up the book one rainy afternoon.
00:00:56.220 Unhewns on the cover, felt like I was in a saloon.
00:01:02.120 Turned the pages slow, the Bolshevik lies came through.
00:01:06.200 Filthy reds. 1.00
00:01:07.580 But Jack and Joshua, they know what to do.
00:01:11.180 We're fighting back.
00:01:13.240 It tells a story of secrets and a mystery.
00:01:16.300 The hidden tales of the communist history.
00:01:23.360 Now I know the truth, what really went down.
00:01:26.160 So now I'm reading on humans.
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00:01:38.320 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard today's very special edition of Human Events Daily.
00:02:02.020 And we're calling it The Year of the Unhumans. 0.85
00:02:08.240 And today is the one year anniversary of the release of the book Unhumans, The Secret History of Communist Revolutions and How to Crush Them.
00:02:20.860 Written by myself and co-authored by Joshua Lysak.
00:02:26.380 It went on and we're very honored by the response of all of you in the audience.
00:02:31.380 The amount of people who supported this.
00:02:34.100 It did become a number one publisher's weekly bestseller.
00:02:39.260 A USA Today bestseller.
00:02:41.900 And also New York Times bestseller list.
00:02:45.780 Yes, in fact, it sold so many copies that even the New York Times was not able to brush it under the rug.
00:02:54.420 And I want to say that what was, I think, the impact of the book was, wasn't anything special that I did or that Joshua did.
00:03:06.720 It was the impact of the stories.
00:03:09.060 It was the impact of the stories, bringing it forward to say, we're not going to talk about communism as this loose collection of falsity.
00:03:16.700 We're not going to argue or debate with the communists.
00:03:19.280 We're going to tell you the stories of what the communists do.
00:03:23.540 We're going to tell you about what they always do.
00:03:27.360 We're going to tell you what they do.
00:03:30.860 And then we argued that you would see those things play out over time in reality.
00:03:39.060 Well, there's just certain things that we couldn't possibly have known when we wrote the book.
00:03:43.540 So we wrote the book in spring of 2024.
00:03:47.600 We released the book in early July.
00:03:52.980 The guy who wrote the foreword to the book, Stephen K. Bannon, was sent to jail, federal prison, as a political prisoner just days after the release of the book.
00:04:03.580 We even released a special political prisoner edition where he signed several hundred copies of it.
00:04:09.060 And then, just a few days after the release of the book, in fact, the same week that the book was released, when we warned.
00:04:18.060 And everybody trashed us saying there will be upheavals, there will be violence, and particularly political assassinations.
00:04:25.860 Well, New York Times went after us, the entire left wing went after us, the entire media went after us.
00:04:34.680 But what happened the same week the book was released?
00:04:38.320 On July 13th, Butler, Pennsylvania, an ActBlue donor attempted to kill President Trump up on that stage in Butler, Pennsylvania.
00:04:53.320 And we wrote a book about that, too.
00:04:54.980 And everything that's happened since has almost been like it's ripped from the pages of this book, arguing that we are in an irregular communist revolution right now.
00:05:12.540 And unfortunately, ladies and gentlemen, it's not over.
00:05:15.860 In fact, it's intensifying.
00:05:17.760 We're going to get into all that and more with Joshua Lysak when we return.
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00:07:18.020 So as we're here in this one-year anniversary of the book Unhumans,
00:07:25.360 I would be remiss if I did not bring up my partner in crime,
00:07:28.380 the great Joshua Lysak, co-author of the book itself, to join me.
00:07:34.800 Joshua, how are you?
00:07:36.560 I'm doing pretty, Danny Jack.
00:07:37.680 Thanks for having me on.
00:07:39.740 So, Joshua, I have to ask, when we put this thing together and you and I had this just sort of,
00:07:45.860 you know, idea to write a book about communism, which I remember actually,
00:07:50.700 and I haven't told the story too publicly, and I'm not going to, you know, name names,
00:07:54.900 but there were some people initially we reached out to who said, hey, we're going to write a book
00:07:58.220 about communism, and they weren't even interested in this.
00:08:00.320 So why would you, you know, why do you want to write a book about communism that's been done
00:08:04.160 before, people have talked about it before, why put out another book about something that we've all
00:08:09.060 heard before?
00:08:10.640 And you and I said, well, you know, we have an angle on it that I don't think anyone's tried,
00:08:15.800 and, you know, to just write a book about communism for the average person to read,
00:08:20.740 so that's not meant to be, you know, a philosopher or a professor or a graduate student level,
00:08:26.340 just the average.
00:08:27.320 I remember you used to say that, you know, we wrote this for, you know, the soccer moms
00:08:32.600 and little league dads and all the rest, and you could just read it, get a direct understanding,
00:08:37.960 and also have that action plan to figure out what to do, you know, what to do about it
00:08:44.720 and actually have some kind of solution.
00:08:46.300 Did you ever think that when we did that, that it would, you know, we'd be here a year
00:08:51.520 later, not only are people still talking about it, but I got to tell you, I can, I see the
00:08:56.720 numbers, people are still buying this thing at a very heavy clip, even one year going.
00:09:03.700 I did have a hunch, Jack, that it would become, frankly, a cult classic, and not just from the,
00:09:10.440 let's say, unmissable front cover, title page, the title, the book cover itself, and the symbolism,
00:09:18.820 and it's definitely got a little bit of shock value there, certainly, and people go,
00:09:23.500 unhumans, what?
00:09:24.940 And then when they read the subtitle, they go, oh, I immediately get it.
00:09:30.540 The challenge that we had is when we looked at the competition, we put, when we put together
00:09:34.260 the book proposal, and we're looking at competition, all of the competition, the competing books
00:09:39.500 from conservative authors, from professors, they all place communism books in historical
00:09:45.820 nonfiction, which is a distinct category, stuff that happened in the past for people interested
00:09:51.280 in that thing to read about.
00:09:53.400 But now when you go to bookstores nationwide, and of course, on humans, it's in bookstores
00:09:57.100 all around the country.
00:09:59.160 What section is it in?
00:10:00.780 It's in current affairs.
00:10:02.780 Current affairs.
00:10:03.240 Because what we recognized is the template for a far left wing, sometimes called communism,
00:10:10.580 sometimes called progressivism, sometimes called socialism.
00:10:14.620 We realize that all of these isms are, in fact, manifestations.
00:10:18.340 In New York, they're calling it democratic socialism.
00:10:21.540 We'll get to that.
00:10:22.420 We'll have to get into that, yes.
00:10:24.640 The isms are all the same.
00:10:27.500 And it's the sense of resentment and envy.
00:10:31.240 So communism and these far left wing ideologies, they're not philosophies.
00:10:36.400 They're tactics.
00:10:37.840 It's you have what I want.
00:10:40.520 That's not fair.
00:10:41.980 Gimme. 0.90
00:10:42.900 That is left wing ideology in practice.
00:10:47.020 And the reason the word unhuman works is because it's a verb.
00:10:51.640 It's not simply a noun.
00:10:52.780 And it means to deprive someone of their human rights to life, liberty, and property, which
00:11:01.000 every single socialist, democratic socialist, communist, and other radical left wing movement
00:11:06.800 deprives people of in reverse order.
00:11:09.540 First, they start to start to take your land.
00:11:12.080 They start to take your stuff via taxes.
00:11:14.940 And it becomes heavier.
00:11:15.860 And then eventually it becomes seizure.
00:11:17.420 And then once they got your property, they start to take your civil rights and restrict you.
00:11:21.000 We see this happen consistently with far left wing parties and individuals targeting conservatives,
00:11:27.840 Christians, Republicans in this country. 0.91
00:11:29.660 So in the book on humans, we tell the story of the last 250 years worth of infiltration and
00:11:38.540 then overthrow of governments around the world by far left wing movements.
00:11:45.240 And we look at what was successful to stop them and what wasn't.
00:11:49.800 And what really aggravated left wing journalists, activists such as the SPLC, the Communist Party,
00:11:57.040 USA, wrote a delicious hit piece about the book.
00:12:00.340 That's my favorite review of it, by the way.
00:12:02.300 What really angered them about on humans is some of the characters who were successful at defeating communists.
00:12:06.120 My favorite review is that we got a full response and almost a chapter-by-chapter review
00:12:12.240 by the actual Communist Party who hated it.
00:12:17.640 And Joshua, there was a guy who had a phrase about, you know, reviews and something about—
00:12:24.880 I'm trying to remember what that was.
00:12:27.040 Oh, wait, that was me, wasn't it?
00:12:28.680 The expression is as follows.
00:12:30.520 Oh, yeah, right. It was you.
00:12:31.000 Bad reviews from bad people are good reviews.
00:12:34.300 So communists who hate an anti-communist book, that's five stars.
00:12:39.340 Right.
00:12:40.000 So when we got the actual communists to come out and scream about the book, say,
00:12:45.040 don't read this book.
00:12:46.080 We hate this book.
00:12:47.280 This is the worst book ever.
00:12:48.920 They're like, wow, that's—we have accomplished our goal here.
00:12:52.840 And it just has to be said that—and full credit where it's due—that a thank you to then-Senator J.D. Vance
00:13:02.760 for endorsing the book, blurbing it, was mercilessly attacked.
00:13:08.060 But then also, which we didn't know, right, in the course of writing the book, we didn't know that later that week, after the same week, remember, that the book came out, Trump gets shot.
00:13:19.360 And then the guy who endorsed our book as the top blurb becomes the vice presidential nominee of the entire country.
00:13:28.840 So if the Republican Party gets nominated and suddenly this just propels the book into this massive mainstream freakout, you've got MSNBC, Rachel Maddow, Joy Reid, and all the rest of it losing their minds at this thing.
00:13:44.640 And so I think those two things in combination with the book itself just really put a fire under the whole thing.
00:13:52.700 And also the fact that you and I never once backed down because we got the playbook and we go through country by country as case studies over the past 250 years and walk you through how it's the same playbook every time.
00:14:06.040 Here it goes.
00:14:06.520 You demonize success, weaponize envy, and then pretend that the pile of skulls was done for the people.
00:14:15.560 That's basically it in a nutshell.
00:14:18.220 Followed by, well, this real stuff hasn't ever been tried.
00:14:22.620 Oh, yeah.
00:14:23.160 Right, right.
00:14:24.000 And then when you're questioned on it, you say, well, that wasn't the real one.
00:14:30.140 And, of course, we flip it all on its head.
00:14:31.780 We flip it on its head because we said, and we've got a minute here until the break, but we said, I think for the first time ever in a major publication like this, they're not doing this for the equality.
00:14:43.180 They don't, the communists don't believe in communism.
00:14:45.580 They know it doesn't work.
00:14:46.760 They don't care it doesn't work.
00:14:48.400 The fact it doesn't work is the point because the point of a system is what it does.
00:14:53.540 And people will say, well, why do you feel, you know, someone who's operating in good faith might say, well, why do you still support communism, even though it's killed 100 million people?
00:15:02.360 Where we come in and say, well, no, the point of the communism was the killing of 100 million people.
00:15:10.180 And deep down, the envy and resentment at the heart of it wants them to kill more.
00:15:18.180 And it's a hard thought to actually comprehend, but I think we're making a lot of progress.
00:15:24.240 Small p, by the way.
00:15:25.400 We'll be right back.
00:15:29.500 Today, you know, they talk about influencers.
00:15:32.020 These are influencers.
00:15:33.900 And they're friends of mine.
00:15:36.280 Jack Posobiec.
00:15:37.780 Where's Jack?
00:15:38.740 Jack.
00:15:39.760 He's done a great job.
00:15:41.160 All right, Jack Posobiec.
00:15:45.620 Here we are back live, Human Events Daily, the one-year anniversary of the release of Unhumans.
00:15:53.260 We're on with Joshua Lysak.
00:15:54.980 And, Joshua, I really have to start to say probably the biggest thing that we've seen since the book has come out has been this wave of assassinations and assassination attempts that have gone on throughout the country since the book's inception.
00:16:11.380 Now, one of the first ones that we saw was a school shooting, so not directly tied to an assassination per se, but this, of course, was Audrey Hale.
00:16:23.180 Then we saw, of course, the book was released the same week that Thomas Matthew Brooks, another Zoomer, attempted to kill President Trump. 0.78
00:16:33.520 Of course, Ryan Wesley Routh, another would-be assassin, attempted to kill President Trump.
00:16:38.140 We saw the wave of the Tesla bombings, the attacks there.
00:16:43.540 And even as we are just talking about this, we're still trying to figure out what exactly happened up in Idaho with this completely insane individual who was set afire as a trap to lure in firefighters and murder them as they arrived.
00:17:04.280 And, of course, the quintessential one that we all know about, which happened in December after the book came out, was Luigi Maggioni.
00:17:14.160 Joshua, were you shocked or surprised at all to see leftists reverting to this type of behavior, specifically that of Luigi Maggioni?
00:17:26.300 This is what they do every single time, like we say in the book.
00:17:32.500 The first attempt at seeking power that the far left has always done is using manipulation, coercion, sleight of hand, trickery.
00:17:45.600 One such preferred tactic is called, that Lenin figured out, Vladimir Lenin during the Bolshevik Revolution, was called the dual power strategy,
00:17:52.520 where you start a separate, independent, seemingly grassroots organization while you try to infiltrate the mainstream or democratic institution.
00:18:02.480 And then once you have enough power in both of them and the so-called grassroots one is powerful enough,
00:18:09.500 you combine them together and then you make your ideology the law of the land and vote yourself the stuff of citizens that you don't like.
00:18:16.740 That's the sort of the coercive, manipulative, sneaky way.
00:18:22.320 And then there's just straight up ditches and pistols.
00:18:27.900 There are the random street killings, the assassination attempts of the opposition.
00:18:34.640 And so we have seen all of the above in the form of domestic terrorism from far leftists,
00:18:40.000 from Thomas Matthew Crooks, the act blue donor, to the Biden and Kamala Harris supporter, Ryan Wesley-Roth,
00:18:46.600 who made it very clear why he wanted to attempt to assassinate President Donald J. Trump.
00:18:51.820 And he wrote up his manifesto, which sort of, in my opinion, read a bit like what you'll see commentators on MSNBC say.
00:19:00.940 It's very similar sort of rhetoric that's violent and seems to be desiring to take it to violence because we just have to do it.
00:19:10.700 We're right.
00:19:11.200 So we got to do what we got to do is their perspective.
00:19:14.780 What the left demands is complete submission of everyone that they are opposed to.
00:19:20.620 And they will do it by hook or by crook, the saying goes, or maybe crooks.
00:19:25.160 But you get the point.
00:19:25.780 And when it comes to when it comes to Maggioni, does it surprise you that he sparked this massive public following this fandom of his across really across the country?
00:19:39.740 I'm in the D.C. area and I see I see Luigi bumper stickers.
00:19:44.260 I see free Luigi.
00:19:45.760 You had mainstream comedians like Bill Burr call for Luigi to be freed, even though his, you know, I mean, he's on trial,
00:19:54.480 but he's he's on video and has not really, you know, put up much of a defense saying that it wasn't him on the video who conducted this street assassination of a health care CEO.
00:20:08.980 Yes.
00:20:09.600 Here's what is so interesting about it is within the left wing.
00:20:12.460 And this is also this talked about in the book on humans during the French Revolution, during the Russian Revolution, during every overthrow of established order by far leftists.
00:20:24.160 There is a sort of a quiet civil war between the radicals and the normies on the far left and the case of the Russian Revolution.
00:20:34.540 This was the Mensheviks and the Bolsheviks. 0.88
00:20:37.420 It was the socialists versus the communists.
00:20:39.960 And so you have, let's say, a contrast between Luigi Mangione, a Bolshevik and Bernie Sanders, a Menshevik, where the idea is, you know, it's not fair that health care companies have so much profit and there's so much suffering.
00:20:54.640 That's not fair.
00:20:56.000 So we need to make them pay their fair share and give free health care, blah, blah, blah, democratic socialism.
00:21:01.260 And then the other faction of the far left says, nope, we are going to engage in unhuman activity.
00:21:08.680 We are going to steal, kill and destroy because that's what we want to do.
00:21:13.220 This is what we do every single time, you see.
00:21:15.540 And so we continue to see that in every campaign where it's the radicals versus the normies.
00:21:21.480 Even on the far left, this is what we continue to see.
00:21:23.920 And, of course, they justify it by saying, oh, it's about equality.
00:21:29.700 But deep down, they want more.
00:21:32.100 Be right back.
00:21:32.760 Jack Posovic, Joshua Lysak, Unhumans, one year.
00:21:35.120 And Jack, where is Jack?
00:21:44.240 Where is Jack?
00:21:46.540 Where is he?
00:21:47.820 Jack, I want to see you.
00:21:51.460 Great job, Jack.
00:21:52.920 Thank you.
00:21:53.680 What a job you do.
00:21:55.100 You know, we have an incredible thing.
00:21:56.480 We're always talking about the fake news and the bad.
00:21:58.800 But we have guys, and these are the guys who should be getting Pulisic.
00:22:02.260 All right, Jack Posovic, here we are back live.
00:22:08.440 Unhumans, the one year anniversary of the New York Times bestseller that they're still mad about, still mad at us.
00:22:17.680 I still get, I can type in a Twitter box every day the words Unhumans, and it's just people blasting me from the left.
00:22:24.860 But also people cheering us from the right.
00:22:28.380 And obviously just common sense, regular people who say, you know what, I didn't understand why communism is popular until I read this book.
00:22:39.900 One of the reasons is they don't call it communism until much later.
00:22:43.120 By the way, we actually printed a secret speech that was given in Cambodia by Pol Pot himself, basically admitting that this is exactly what they do.
00:22:57.440 That they went in and they were like, well, yeah, we couldn't call it communism at first, but we infiltrated the academia.
00:23:03.160 We infiltrated the schools.
00:23:04.440 We infiltrated the media.
00:23:05.460 We infiltrated politics.
00:23:06.480 And then finally, once after we took over everything, then we could tell you, actually, we were the communists all along.
00:23:12.220 So it's very clear.
00:23:13.560 And in fact, it's in their own words.
00:23:14.720 It's one of the first times you'll find in English this secret speech printed in a publication from Pol Pot to the people of the party, which was now known as the Khmer Rouge or the Communist Party of Cambodia.
00:23:29.960 But Joshua, you were talking about the fandom of Luigi Maggioni.
00:23:36.020 And these things arise when you come into a situation where, you know, you do have these massive dispersals of, and we're just going to call it, right?
00:23:46.600 We point out many times in the book when people say, well, it's inequality, it's inequality, it's inequality.
00:23:52.660 And there are inequalities, by the way.
00:23:55.200 And this is true.
00:23:55.760 And it's something that conservatives get wrong all the time, and they say, oh, well, there's inequality, so you should just not worry about it, or you should just pull yourself up by your bootstraps.
00:24:06.140 But what happens when those disparities become so huge, when people can't afford rent in New York City, and yet they see Jeff Bezos is able to rent out all of Venice for his massive star-studded wedding, and people start to get upset.
00:24:23.480 And eventually, emotionally, along comes Luigi Maggioni or, I don't know, say, an enterprising young immigrant from Uganda, although of Indian extraction, and says, perhaps we can just vote to take those people's stuff away and redistribute it to you yourselves.
00:24:46.940 And that's Zoram Mamdani.
00:24:49.620 And guess what?
00:24:50.200 That's the exact same city that is now cheering, many, many people in that city cheering Luigi Maggioni, who was shot just a few miles away.
00:25:01.560 Or, excuse me, conducted his killing just a few miles away, where he killed his victim.
00:25:05.340 So, you know, you see these same forces and same pressures brought to bear.
00:25:11.160 And Steve Bannon, of course, famously said at one of the speeches he was giving, one of these talks to media, and he was explaining populism.
00:25:21.480 And he said, look, there's—and he was basically preaching the gospel of unhuman, saying, look, you either get us with MAGA or you get Luigi Maggioni.
00:25:30.200 Pick your poison.
00:25:31.740 And now you've got a guy who very well may be the next mayor of New York City, who's saying what?
00:25:38.960 Redistribute the wealth, who's saying put higher taxes on white neighborhoods, who's saying that we need to seize the means of production, who wants government-run food centers. 0.66
00:25:50.760 Oh, government control of the food.
00:25:53.280 Where have I heard that before?
00:25:55.880 You know, and people—this is what they do.
00:25:58.200 This is what they do.
00:26:00.500 Control the land.
00:26:01.820 Control the food.
00:26:02.980 This isn't even—it's definitely cultural Marxism, but a lot of classic Marxism also mixed in.
00:26:08.940 Joshua, unpack all this for us.
00:26:11.800 Yes, a phrase that I'm liking to call him Kami Mamdani that he has been using is class consciousness, which, of course, is an expression that was popularized by Karl Marx in the very first—over the very first communists.
00:26:25.820 And if we're going to look at that phrase, well, what does it mean to be class conscious?
00:26:30.560 It means that there is the rich and there is the poor, and there's not a whole lot of separation between them.
00:26:36.300 During the Industrial Revolution, Europe and other Western countries saw this quite a bit, where there were those who owned the factories, who owned the manufacturing supply chains, who were sitting high and large as sort of a self-appointed aristocracy, and they had great power and privilege.
00:26:52.760 And then there were the working poor, who couldn't afford good homes, who couldn't afford good education for their kids, who couldn't afford, frankly, nutrition.
00:27:01.500 And they were working the modern equivalent of basically two, three or more jobs.
00:27:07.420 And you had this severe, true inequality during the Industrial Revolution.
00:27:13.400 And class consciousness is this idea that that is the most important aspect of society, is that there are the haves and the have-nots.
00:27:23.240 And the haves only have by exploiting perpetually the have-nots.
00:27:30.720 And so, because this is unfair, we need to make it equal.
00:27:36.920 Now, what happens often in this equalizing situation is we need to get revenge.
00:27:44.420 We need to make the powerful and the privileged feel what we have.
00:27:49.660 We need to make them suffer, which is why those participants of the Haitian Revolution, the Communist Revolution, when they were later interviewed, following the success of the Revolution, they would say things like, in English, for example, 0.96
00:28:05.260 I didn't just want to be free.
00:28:08.040 I wanted to own white slaves, is what they said.
00:28:12.240 And there's that deep resentment there from the time of the Haitian Revolution.
00:28:16.840 And so, what often happens is there are people who don't have a lot of access to opportunities, frankly.
00:28:24.020 And I might start to sound like a populist, and that's okay.
00:28:28.300 That's what MAGA is.
00:28:29.780 And you either get MAGA or you get Mangione and Kami Mamdani.
00:28:34.620 There's not really any dividing.
00:28:37.080 There's not really a third option at this point.
00:28:38.960 Now, we have Mangione being a Bolshevik, where it's violence to get that revenge. 0.77
00:28:44.840 And then you have sort of the Menshevik, the Democratic Socialist, of, well, let's set up the government distribution food centers.
00:28:53.700 Let's tax the white neighborhoods more. 1.00
00:28:55.940 Let's make sure that there's fewer and fewer white people. 1.00
00:28:58.660 Let's let, you know, let's do these sorts of things.
00:29:00.860 And that the percentage of immigrants are in these neighborhoods is increasing.
00:29:05.860 You see, it's Menshevism, you might say.
00:29:08.920 That sort of, well, it's not communism if you vote for it, right?
00:29:13.400 And, of course, what happened during the Spanish Civil War?
00:29:16.100 Well, immediately prior to the Spanish Civil War, the socialists won the election.
00:29:20.360 And what did they do?
00:29:21.600 They allowed their communist allies to run roughshod over the Christians of rural Spain and the small business owners.
00:29:29.040 And that's generally what happens right there.
00:29:31.140 I've got to double down on that piece for everyone is people have to understand that.
00:29:37.520 Because when people bring up the Spanish Civil War, they say, wait a minute, there was an election.
00:29:40.680 There was an election.
00:29:41.260 Yes.
00:29:41.500 But then what they did was, exactly as you say, they allowed all of the communist groups, what we would call the Antifa of today or the BLM groups of the area, to be essentially deputized as a form of law enforcement and a form of a people's court system, taken directly from the French Revolution verbatim, by the way,
00:30:06.700 where the people's court now got to decide who would live, who would die, who would be in charge of the parish, who would be in charge of society.
00:30:15.380 And they started killing, oh, who, the priests and the nuns, exactly as what happened in the French Revolution 200 years prior, because this is what they do. 0.88
00:30:25.800 So, Joshua, to your point is exactly right.
00:30:28.220 They use this thin veneer of moderation to take power, and then they empower the Maggionis and the extremists and the worst elements of their side. 0.96
00:30:40.060 This is also why in France, or excuse me, in Russia, by the way, you have the two revolutions.
00:30:44.400 You have the February Revolution followed by the October Revolution, where the February Revolution took out the Tsar, but then they had the Russian Republic for about five minutes.
00:30:54.780 And the October Revolution was when the Bolsheviks came up and said, no, this isn't going fast enough.
00:30:59.440 We're just going to kill all you guys.
00:31:02.220 And that is often how it goes.
00:31:03.820 And sometimes it's a little more targeted, not obvious, so that there's not a military response, which is what we talk about in the book Unhumans,
00:31:11.040 that the United States has gone through a low-intensity conflict of an irregular communist revolutionary war,
00:31:18.440 meaning it's been below the point of military reaction or response being, or even, let's say, significant nationwide policing being necessary with the infiltration of academia and entertainment and government,
00:31:34.380 where it sort of slowly happens without people realizing it.
00:31:38.020 And this is the same sort of warfare that belligerents against the United States have been using after the Cold War because they do not want to draw the ire and fire of the United States military.
00:31:49.900 It's the same concept here with an irregular revolution.
00:31:52.760 If we can make it happen slow enough, the people won't notice what's happening.
00:31:57.880 And then those of us who call out what's happening, they attack and say, no, that's not happening.
00:32:02.880 And then when it does, they say, no, that's not happening, and it's good that it is.
00:32:08.280 Well, this is also why we see the same tactic of the softening up, what we call anarcho-tyranny, where one of these other tactics that they do is rather than have police for the violent elements of society,
00:32:23.260 they allow those violent elements of society to be released into the general populace so that they can terrorize essentially the middle class.
00:32:34.180 I believe I saw a headline recently that there was going back to New York again.
00:32:39.160 And New York City is a perfect example of this because it is America's greatest city.
00:32:43.720 And the health of America's greatest city absolutely portends the trajectory and direction of our country.
00:32:50.320 And so why are we talking about this so much when we talk about unhumans? 0.95
00:32:54.240 Because you can see all of these things playing out within just a few, you know, a couple mile radius of each other, these same forces on America's greatest city streets.
00:33:04.320 And so when you look at the release of violent criminals, this, again, is a tactic to terrorize the middle class, to terrorize the populace, to terrorize you tourists and you regular folks who would be law-abiding.
00:33:23.020 You are the ones who are the targets because you always are.
00:33:28.000 One minute until the break, Joshua.
00:33:29.420 Yes, and what we have often seen throughout these communist revolutions, we talk about this in the book as well, is they often happen within cities, within cities.
00:33:42.060 Because when you take over a city, you can infiltrate that government, you can distribute it from there.
00:33:47.360 That can become sort of your nerve center for the revolution.
00:33:50.760 And a video that has just gone viral as of this recording depicts our New York commie, Mamdani.
00:34:00.200 He is giving an interview and he's eating rice rather messingly with his hands, with his fingertips, which is something that is known to do in the third world. 0.98
00:34:09.520 The lack of pretensions.
00:34:10.080 I can't even watch it.
00:34:10.720 Yes, yes, and why is he doing that?
00:34:15.160 Having come from, actually coming from a position of power and privilege with his mother being an acclaimed film director and his father having been an Ivy League professor, he's not eating with his hands.
00:34:25.500 So why is he doing it?
00:34:26.520 He's doing it for the same reason that Joseph Stalin would wear the simple party dress, the same reason that Mao Zedong would dress as a pauper, as a peasant, as a farm worker.
00:34:36.960 Just like the same reason that.
00:34:40.020 Yes, and he's building that connection.
00:34:42.140 We'll be right back.
00:34:42.720 Joshua Lysak, One Year of Unhumans, The Secret History of the Communist Revolution.
00:34:46.740 It's a Hader Prashley.
00:34:55.820 Jack is a great guy.
00:34:57.260 He's written that fantastic book.
00:34:59.000 Everybody's talking about it.
00:35:00.240 Go get it.
00:35:01.340 And he's been my friend right from the beginning of this whole beautiful event.
00:35:04.860 And we're going to turn it around and make sure it's actually quite a good time.
00:35:08.620 Amen.
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00:36:10.640 All right, Jack Kosovic, we are back here.
00:36:12.900 One year, Human Events Daily, since the release of the book Unhumans, The Secret History of Communist Revolutions and How to Crush Them,
00:36:21.580 went on to become a New York Times bestseller, number one, Publishers Weekly, one year ago.
00:36:28.640 This week, and little did we know, it would be the same week that Steve Bannon was sent to federal prison,
00:36:35.320 that President Trump would be nearly assassinated in Butler, Pennsylvania.
00:36:40.500 And yes, just days after that, J.D. Vance was chosen as the vice presidential nominee.
00:36:45.880 So, huge amount of news following this one week.
00:36:50.740 And, of course, we still need answers into Butler, Pennsylvania.
00:36:55.040 There's no question about that.
00:36:56.920 Joshua, why is, you know, we've talked about Luigi Maggioni.
00:37:00.800 We've talked about Zoran Kwame Mamdani winning with this massive swath of Gen Z support in New York City
00:37:11.260 on an incredibly communist, cultural Marxist agenda, gay race communism, we're just going to call it what it is. 0.80
00:37:21.380 Why is this book still relevant and still so important and required reading for all Americans today?
00:37:29.940 Like we said at the outset, Jack, Unhumans is not historical nonfiction.
00:37:35.460 It's current affairs.
00:37:37.220 It's current events.
00:37:38.100 It's what's going on right now.
00:37:39.440 It's something that has been going on for more than 250 years and will continue unless it is stopped.
00:37:47.420 And we have primaries coming up here.
00:37:50.140 I'm looking at the calendar for the rest of this year.
00:37:52.140 We're going towards the 2026 midterm elections, which are not just going to be the federal offices.
00:37:57.740 There's a lot of stuff happening locally where radicals will take over school boards.
00:38:04.300 They will take over any opportunity they can at state houses, state senators, representatives, sheriffs, prosecutors, DAs.
00:38:12.520 Any of these positions that they can get their hands on to infiltrate the institutions, they will do so.
00:38:19.740 And yes, the 2024 presidential election went the way of the right and for the benefit of the United States of America.
00:38:28.500 But the left did not go anywhere.
00:38:31.160 And what lesson they took from the 2024 election loss was not we need to be more moderate.
00:38:37.920 They said, no, we need to be more radical.
00:38:40.420 We need to use not just veiled Marxist talking points.
00:38:44.920 We need to quote Marxism, quote the Communist Manifesto, quote and use these exact expressions like class consciousness.
00:38:54.360 And so the lesson they took was the left, we simply need to become more radical.
00:38:58.560 And there is a significant percentage of the population, maybe even some of your neighbors, certainly your fellow voters, who when they hear what the Mensheviks or the Bolsheviks are saying or doing, they say, oh, I support that. 0.91
00:39:13.760 I'm going to vote for that.
00:39:14.760 Remember, the same sort of people who sent those love letters in fan mail to the street assassin, Luigi Mangione, those are the same populations who voted for Kami Mamdani in the New York City Democratic primary.
00:39:32.140 And what's key here, and we only have a couple of minutes left.
00:39:36.480 I wish we had another hour, but I have to get you back on, Joshua, because this book tells you how to disrupt this type of behavior.
00:39:43.740 And it tells you how to stop it.
00:39:46.520 And it tells you how you can take steps.
00:39:48.620 You, right now, you don't have to be an influencer or a political maven or have a podcast or media connection or any of those things.
00:39:56.400 How you can in your local area, whether it be your library or your community center.
00:40:02.480 By the way, the moms already get this, and that's why they're totally focused on the school boards. 1.00
00:40:07.320 By the way, I was at an event.
00:40:09.420 I'll just say I was in the D.C. area.
00:40:11.480 I was at, like, a kid's thing, like a non-political, just kid's activity that I brought my kids to.
00:40:17.640 And I saw someone there wearing a Moms for Liberty t-shirt, and I walked right up to it.
00:40:23.620 It was a guy, actually.
00:40:24.600 I walked right up to the guy, and I said, hey, man, that's a great shirt.
00:40:28.420 I really support what those guys do.
00:40:30.740 And he said, I couldn't agree more.
00:40:32.760 It's little things like that that have a maximum impact when we all do them together because we focus on the nodes of power.
00:40:41.920 And I guarantee you, your local communist has already focused on the local nodes of power in your town or your community.
00:40:51.880 Joshua Lysak, where can people go to follow you and to obtain their copy of this required summer reading?
00:40:59.880 Unhumans is available, of course, on Amazon.com and from many outlets, bookstores nationwide.
00:41:06.940 They're at your brick-and-mortar locations.
00:41:08.840 And I can be found on X, formerly Twitter, and also on social media, simply at Joshua Lysak and at LysakGhostWriting.com.
00:41:16.960 Joshua Lysak, absolutely incredible.
00:41:21.200 By the way, UnhumansBook.com, I'll just double-step that, is you can get autographed copies.
00:41:27.260 We'll see if we can get the foreword by Stephen K. Bannon.
00:41:30.040 We'll see if we can get Steve, maybe see if we can do some more political prisoner additions.
00:41:34.260 Those sold like hotcakes.
00:41:36.800 But as you know, Steve's schedule is Steve's schedule.
00:41:40.520 See what we can do in terms of that.
00:41:42.140 But folks, go out there and remember, take down your local Unhuman and support your local ICE raids.
00:41:51.940 Ladies and gentlemen, as always, you have my permission to lay a short.