# Unhumans

Unhumans: The Secret History of Communist Revolutions (and How to Crush Them) is a 2024 American political and polemical book by Jack Posobiec and co-author Joshua Lisec. It features a foreword by Steve Bannon and a blurb from JD Vance.

## Contents

The core thesis of the tome holds that the American left intends to terrorize and subjugate the United States under a communist dictatorship. In their telling, they are "unhumans."
   For the last couple centuries, we’ve known them as communists. Socialists, with extra steps. And of course, leftists. Radicals and revolutionaries as well. A hundred years ago, Marxist Leninists, then more recently, Cultural Marxists. Even as, without irony and not as a joke, “progressives.” For the purposes of this book, we will call them the unhumans.
It has a foreword written by Steve Bannon.
In it the authors laud the contributions of Francisco Franco, Chiang Kai-shek, Augusto Pinochet, Joseph McCarthy, Julius Caesar, and Elon Musk to what they frame as an existential struggle against the dark forces of communism.
   In the past, communists marched in the streets waving red flags. Today, they march through HR, college campuses, and courtrooms to wage lawfare against good, honest people. In Unhumans, Jack Posobiec and Joshua Lisec reveal their plans and show us what to do to fight back.
The book was endorsed by JD Vance, who wrote a cover blurb for the book. The book features praise from public figures, including Tucker Carlson, Donald Trump Jr., Michael Flynn, and Robert Stacy McCain.

## Reception

Reviewers have criticized the book. Michelle Goldberg decried the book as "fascist" and an "anti-democratic screed", notes that it lauds Franco and Pinochet, and claims that "The book argues that leftists don’t deserve the status of human beings – that they are, as the title says, unhumans – and that they are waging a shadow war against all that is good and decent, which will end in apocalyptic slaughter if they are not stopped".
David Corn also disliked the book, noting with disapprobation that it includes the American civil rights movement among unhuman plots, along with Black Lives Matter, and gives quotes from the book including "There is no way to reason with those who manipulate the have-nots en masse to loot and to shoot. They simply hate those who are good-looking and successful" and that these "ugly liars who hate and kill" are (in league with Big Tech) undertaking the "distinct revolutionary movement we are witnessing in the modern-day West". The book, according to Corn, describes the January 6 United States Capitol attack as a false-flag trap sprung as a "purge of Trump supporters... from public life", and also advises that law enforcement in red areas should target antifa, Black Lives Matter, and some NGOs, as "It is time to stop playing by rules they won’t".
David Gardner also criticized the book, quoting with disagreement the passages "By becoming consumed by nihilism, unhumans oppose everything that makes up humanity. As they are opposed to humanity itself..." and "Our study of history has brought us to this conclusion: Democracy has never worked to protect innocents from the unhumans".
Nathan J. Robinson was sufficiently appalled to write "It is perhaps the most paranoid, hateful, and terrifying book I have ever picked up. (I say this as someone who has read Mein Kampf.)"