Viral videos show hundreds of protesters marching through Philadelphia with communist flags. The protest, which took place on Sunday, called for a “class war” to overthrow capitalism in the United States.
According to Fox News, Sunday’s march through the streets of Philadelphia came as the Revolutionary Communists of America said it conducted its founding congress in the city over the weekend. Videos from the march show hundreds of protesters waving red flags with the hammer and sickle symbols of the communist movement.
In the videos, the protesters can be heard shouting, “Class war 2024! Fight the rich and feed the poor!”
A Philadelphia Police Department spokesperson told Fox News that roughly 300 individuals participated in Sunday’s protest march. The police spokesperson added that there were “no significant issues, no citations, no arrests” in connection with the march.
On the Revolutionary Communists of America’s website, the organization describes itself as a “party of class fighters committed to the complete overthrow of capitalism.”
“We fight for a world of material superabundance and reject the artificial scarcity of a system based on the pursuit of profits,” the organization’s website states. “We fight to build a revolutionary leadership worthy of the name and to establish a workers’ government that can mobilize the working class to tackle the capitalist roots of war, inequality, oppression, and climate catastrophe.”
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According to its website, the Revolutionary Communists of America is engaged in the “American Socialist Revolution” and is pushing for the reorganization of society “once the working class wins political and economic power.”
The videos of Sunday’s march in Philadelphia led to multiple responses on social media from well-known personalities to everyday Americans. Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk shared a video of the march with an exclamation mark caption on X, formerly Twitter.
Sharing another video of the march, media personality Brigitte Gabriel wrote, “Hundreds decided to march in Philadelphia over the weekend in support of communism, an ideology that is responsible for the death of 100+ million innocent lives. What an abomination.”
In response to the videos on X, one social media user tweeted, “Why don’t they just move to communism countries if they want communism?” Another social media user warned, “You can vote yourself into communism, but can’t vote yourself out. Look at Venezuela this night.” Meanwhile, a third social media user suggested, “This group should be on a watchlist.”
