{{Short description|2024 book by Jack Posobiec and Joshua Lisec}} {{italic title}} {{distinguish|Unhuman|Inhumans|Inhuman (disambiguation){{!}}Inhuman}} {{Infobox book | name = Unhumans | image = Cover of book "Inhumans".jpg | alt = Cover with a red skull with a sickle and hammer on it, with two white hands and men standing in front of them | caption = Cover | author = Jack Posobiec and Joshua Lisec | country = United States | language = English | subject = American politics | publisher = War Room Books | pub_date = 9 July 2024 | media_type = Print | pages = 258 | isbn = 978-1-64821-085-3 | oclc = 1427657842 }} '''''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 which was a ''New York Times'' bestseller.<ref>{{cite news |author1=New York Times |title=Hardcover Nonfiction |url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/2024/08/11/hardcover-nonfiction/ |access-date=17 July 2025 |work=New York Times |language=en}}</ref> It features a foreword by Steve Bannon and a blurb from JD Vance. The claims that the American left desires a communist dictatorship and thus should be labeled "unhumans" who should lack human rights. Reviewers criticized the book for being "fascist," "anti-democratic", and "hateful".
== Contents == {{More plot|date=January 2026}} The core thesis of the book is that the American left intends to terrorize and subjugate the United States under a communist dictatorship.<ref name=Amazon/> In their telling, these people are "unhumans",<ref name="The Nation">{{cite magazine |last1=Pollitt |first1=Katha |date=15 August 2024 |title=Jack Posobiec Calls Leftists "Unhuman." JD Vance Seems to Agree. |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/jack-posobiec-jd-vance/ |access-date=20 August 2024 |website=thenation.com |publisher=The Nation}}</ref> too twisted and malicious to be allowed the status of human beings or accorded human rights.
{{blockquote|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.<ref>Posobiec & Lisec, ''Unhumans'', p. 2</ref>}}
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.<ref name= "The Nation" />
The book has a foreword written by Steve Bannon.<ref name="The Nation" /> It was endorsed by JD Vance, who wrote a cover blurb for the book. It also features praise from public figures, including Tucker Carlson,{{efn| "[O]ne of the rare people worth listening to."}} Donald Trump Jr.,{{efn| "The far Left [...] have repeatedly shown that they will stop at nothing to achieve their totalitarian goals. They have torn down countless societies using a sophisticated playbook of propaganda [...] ''Unhumans'' reveals that playbook and teaches us how to deploy it immediately to save the West."}} Michael Flynn,{{efn|"We are now living through an era of irregular warfare. This is a gray-zone communist revolution by new means. ''Unhumans'' exposes their battle plans."}} and Robert Stacy McCain.{{efn|"''Unhumans'' teaches that the events Americans are living through now are not without precedent. There is a pattern to these events{{snd}}a 'gray-zone communist revolution'{{snd}}and if we do not wish to repeat the pattern, we must act intelligently to stop the destructive plans of the 'unhumans'."}}<ref name=Skyhorse/><ref name="Target Department Store books">[https://www.target.com/p/unhumans-by-jack-posobiec-joshua-lisec-hardcover/-/A-91634636 Target Department Store (Hardcover), ''Unhumans'']</ref>
{{Blockquote|text=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.|author=JD Vance|title=cover blurb, ''Unhumans: The Secret History of Communist Revolutions (and How to Crush Them)''<ref name=Goldberg/>}}
== 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 says that "The book argues that leftists don’t deserve the status of human beings{{snd}}that they are, as the title says, unhumans{{snd}}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".<ref name=Goldberg/>
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".<ref name="Corn" />
David Gardner also criticized the book, citing passages such as "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".<ref name="Gardner" />
Nathan J. Robinson wrote, "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''.)"<ref name="Robinson" />
==See also== * ''Dawn's Early Light: Taking Back Washington to Save America'' * {{annotated link|Hillbilly Elegy|''Hillbilly Elegy''}} * Jewish Bolshevism, Nazi propaganda story * List of anti-communist books * {{Annotated link|Untermensch}}
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==References== <references> <ref name="Amazon">{{cite book |title=Unhumans: The Secret History of Communist Revolutions (and How to Crush Them) [book description] |isbn=978-1648210853 |last1=Posobiec |first1=Jack |last2=Lisec |first2=Joshua |date=9 July 2024 |publisher=Simon and Schuster }}</ref> <ref name="Goldberg">{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/05/opinion/jd-vance-fascism-unhumans.html?unlocked_article_code=1.A04.RbXU.uPyLpNWbZPKi&smid=url-share |title=JD Vance Just Blurbed a Book Arguing That Progressives Are Subhuman |author=Michelle Goldberg |date=August 5, 2024 |work=New York Times |accessdate=August 6, 2024 |archive-date=August 6, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240806181903/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/05/opinion/jd-vance-fascism-unhumans.html?unlocked_article_code=1.A04.RbXU.uPyLpNWbZPKi&smid=url-share |url-status=live }}</ref> <ref name="Skyhorse">{{cite book |title=Unhumans: The Secret History of Communist Revolutions (and How to Crush Them) [product description] |date=9 July 2024 |publisher=Skyhorse Books |isbn=978-1648210853 }}</ref> <ref name="Corn">{{cite web |url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/07/jd-vance-unhumans-book-jack-posobiec-alt-right-january-6/ |title=J.D. Vance Endorsed Book That Calls Progressives "Unhumans" and Praises Jan. 6 Rioters |author=David Corn |date= |work=Mother Jones |accessdate=August 6, 2024 |archive-date=August 7, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240807163705/https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/07/jd-vance-unhumans-book-jack-posobiec-alt-right-january-6/ |url-status=live }}</ref> <ref name="Gardner">{{cite web |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/jd-vance-praised-book-calling-the-left-unhumans-and-praising-dictators |title=Vance Praised Book Calling the Left 'Unhumans' and Praising Dictators |author=David Gardner |date=August 6, 2024 |work=Daily Beast |accessdate=August 6, 2024 |archive-date=August 6, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240806182310/https://www.thedailybeast.com/jd-vance-praised-book-calling-the-left-unhumans-and-praising-dictators |url-status=live }}</ref> <ref name="Robinson">{{cite journal |url=https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-horrifying-fascist-manifesto-endorsed-by-j.d.-vance |title=The Horrifying Fascist Manifesto Endorsed By J.D. Vance |author=Nathan J. Robinson |date=July 31, 2024 |journal=Current Affairs |accessdate=August 7, 2024}}</ref> </references>
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