Fantasies from Marx, Stalin, Mao and Their Modern Day Foot Soldiers.
As a grateful immigrant, I’ve seen how ordered liberty turns chaos into home. But the “savior complex”—that delusional fire where one believes they’re destined to “fix” society by any means, including destruction—has poisoned the left’s ideology for over a century.
It starts with Karl Marx, whose writings openly called for equality through total upheaval: “They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.”
This wasn’t mere theory; it was a fatal fantasy about destroying the old to build utopia. Stalin and Mao implemented it ruthlessly—Stalin’s purges and famines claimed 20-30 million lives, Mao’s Great Leap and Cultural Revolution 40-70 million more—all under the banner of “saving” the masses from oppression.
Their countless foot soldiers, convinced they were heroes eradicating evil, turned ideology into mass graves.
This isn’t history; it’s the undeniable premise alive today in left-leaning acts cloaked as “justice.”
When hearts twist like this, voluntary order crumbles: accountability ditched, assimilation forced, allegiance betrayed.
From 2023 to now, eleven high-profile cases—all wall-to-wall headlines—show this deadly savior complex running the red light. Truth wins because reality doesn’t bend, but the body count screams: humility over heroism, or the cycle repeats forever.
Transgender Ideology Fantasy
March 27, 2023 – Nashville, TN Audrey Hale storms Covenant Christian School, kills six (three kids). Convinced she’s avenging harms from a religious upbringing, stopping future “bigots.” Echo of Marxist class war: Target “oppressive” institutions to “liberate” the marginalized. Fantasy: Strike early for equality. Reality: Innocents dead, reinforcing the Stalinist purge mindset—trans ideology weaponized against faith communities.
August 27, 2025 – Minneapolis, MN Robin Westman shoots into Annunciation Catholic School during Mass, kills two kids. Targets religion as root of bigotry. Cultural Revolution redux: Smash old ideas to build utopia. Fantasy: End the cycle before it grows. Reality: Children gone, community shattered—right here in our backyard, trans resentment turned fatal against religious institutions.
September 10, 2025 – Utah Valley University Tyler Robinson, 22, snipes Charlie Kirk at an open debate. Convinced Kirk’s “hate” endangers LGBTQ lives (ignores facts like Kirk’s gay friends). Identity politics gone fatal: Silence dissenters for “inclusivity.” Fantasy: Protect the marginalized by force. Reality: Life taken during a call for dialogue, like Mao’s struggle sessions—trans/LGBTQ savior complex silencing debate.
Classic Marxism Fantasy
December 4, 2024 – New York City Luigi Mangione, 26, ambushes UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Rages against corporate greed “killing” people via denials. Marxist economic critique weaponized: Destroy capitalists to end exploitation. Fantasy: Assassinate the symbol, spark justice. Reality: Arrested, but the healthcare mess rolls on unchanged—fueled by progressive policies like Obamacare, sold as salvation but delivering higher costs and worse access, proving socialism’s promise impoverishes and starves while blaming capitalism.
Stop The Next Hitler Fantasy
July 13, 2024 – Butler, PA Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, rooftops a Trump rally, wounds the candidate, kills one. Believes he’s halting a fascist dooming democracy. Marx’s anti-bourgeois rage reborn: Eliminate the “tyrant” for the proletariat. Fantasy: One bullet saves the world. Reality: Secret Service ends it, but the mess lingers like Mao’s Red Guards—Trump cast as the next Hitler, justifying lethal force in the name of “democracy.”
September 14, 2024 – West Palm Beach, FL Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, hides in bushes at Trump’s golf course with a rifle. Views Trump as a tyrant to be removed for humanity’s sake. Foot-soldier logic: Revolution demands sacrifice of “enemies.” Fantasy: Solo hero fixes the system. Reality: Detected and arrested—close call exposes the delusion, another attempt fueled by the belief that Trump is the next Hitler who must be stopped at all costs.
Stop The Unfair Evil Success of The West Fantasy
May 21, 2025 – Washington, D.C. Elias Rodriguez guns down two Israeli embassy staffers—a young couple—at a Jewish event. Shouts “Free Palestine!” Anti-imperialist echo of Mao’s global struggles: Avenging “colonial” evils. Fantasy: Target oppressors for liberation. Reality: Cold-blooded murder, no peace advanced—the success of the West (Israel) and its Judeo-Christian culture targeted by 7th-century-rooted anti-Semitism dressed in modern progressive rhetoric.
June 1, 2025 – Boulder, CO Mohamed Sabry Soliman firebombs a Jewish solidarity gathering (mostly elderly, including Holocaust survivors). Yells “Free Palestine!” One dies from burns. Collectivist fury: Eradicate “Zionist” threats for the collective good. Fantasy: Strike at evil for the cause. Reality: More hate, more division, mirroring Stalin’s anti-Semitic campaigns—the West’s Judeo-Christian success attacked through the same ancient hatred now cloaked in leftist solidarity.
Save The Noble Illegal Alien Fantasy
September 24, 2025 – Dallas, TX Joshua Jahn snipes an ICE facility from a rooftop, kills two detainees (irony: the “oppressed” he aimed to help). Paranoid against government “oppression.” Anti-state anarchism tied to left utopias: Dismantle borders for equality. Fantasy: Attack the system to free victims. Reality: Wrong targets hit, enforcement hardens—buying fully into the left’s narrative that border enforcement is evil.
January 7, 2026 – Minneapolis, MN Renée Good intervenes in an ICE operation, sees agents as inhumane terror. Borderless world fantasy: Defy laws to “save” immigrants. Reality: Escalation leads to her fatal shooting—another local tragedy, completely buying into the left’s deadly savior complex that paints ICE as evil incarnate.
January 24, 2026 – Minneapolis, MN Alex Pretti, armed nurse, physically resists ICE agents to “protect” a shoved woman. Fantasy: Be the barrier against evil. Reality: Tackled, resisted, shot—loaded gun and spare mags seal the doom, a microcosm of foot-soldier zeal gone wrong, fully embracing the left’s narrative that ICE agents are the real terrorists.
This cluster reinforces the premise: Marx’s destructive fantasy birthed a savior complex that justified millions dead under Stalin and Mao, and today’s echoes—cloaked in “justice”—run the same red lights.
No pillars hold without consent:
Accountability demands rules for all
Assimilation means earn your place
Allegiance protects what works.
The cycle? Mess from twisted hearts, order fights back. As immigrants grateful for America’s voluntary bonds, we see it clearest—fantasies doom themselves. Truth outlasts them all. Join the conversation below—what’s your take?
-The Grateful Immigrant St. Paul, Minnesota
January 26, 2026
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