First of all, you must take away all pre-programed thoughts you might already have about communists. Forget all that big bad Russian stuff that the 80's taught us, that doesn't exist anymore. Think of communism as just a way of life, a social order, an economic standpoint. Take all the visions of sickles and hammers out of your head for awhile, and then you will be able to see it.
First of all, the Smurfs shared everything. The food in the Smurf village was stored away in those mushrooms the minute it was harvested and then equally distributed to all the Smurfs throughout the year. No one "farmer smurf" sold his crop to one smurf or another. It was understood that the crop was for the entire Smurf population, not for the sale or profit of one smurf alone.
Then there were the jobs each smurf held. There was Handy Smurf, and Painter Smurf, and Brainy Smurf, ect.. Each smurf had his own job and was not allowed to try other fields. There actually was an episode where each smurf tried to do another one's job, and failed. The moral of the story was apparently "Stick to what you do Best" or in another view, what the society has chosen for you. Handy Smurf was always building. Painter Smurf was always painting. Everyone accepted what they were and didn't ask questions.
Then there comes the somewhat obvious stretches. Papa Smurf wore a red cap. All the Smurfs were the same color and sang the same song everywhere they went - stressing unity. Didn't you catch yourself singing that song as a kid? Everyong did.
The most outstanding arguement that the smurfs were communists comes from their arch-vilain Gargamel. If you remember, the only thing that Gargamel wanted the smurfs for was for his own profit. In the first four or five seasons, Gargamel's master plan was to catch the Smurfs, boil them, and turn them into gold. For some reason, in the later years when the show was dieing, they started saying that he wanted to eat the poor blue creatures, but for the most part he wanted to turn them into gold. He didn't care about the Smurfs themselves or thier culture or wellbeing. All he cared about was getting gold. He was only interested in how to get rich and nothing, nothing would get in his way.
Gargamel was a capitalist.
The evil antagonist on the Smurfs was the ultimate capitalist, terrorizing the peaceful good little communist Smurf community. It all starts to fit together doesn't it?
It makes you wonder why anybody didn't speak up about this before, especialy during the 80's cold war.
I guess nobody thought it worth there time.
....Boy I need a life.
