One year after its release, “Unhumans: The Secret History of Communist Revolutions (And How to Crush Them)” continues to see strong sales Jack Posobiec, co-author of the book and Human Events Daily host, said.
The book, written with Josh Lisec, was launched in 2024 and made a case against communism and its aspects.
On the book’s first anniversary, the authors talked on how the project came together—and why they believe the book has remained relevant.
“When you and I had this idea to write a book about communism, which I remember, actually—I’m not going to name names—there were some people, initially, that we reached out to say we were going to write a book about communism, and they weren’t even interested in this,” Posobiec said. “They said it was done before, why put out another book about something we’ve all heard before?”
“You and I said, we have an angle on it that I don’t think anyone’s tried,” he continued. “To just write a book about communism for the average person to read, so that it’s not meant to be, you know, a philosopher or a professor, or a graduate student-level, just the average. I remember you used to say that we wrote it for soccer moms and little league dads. You can just read it and get a direct understanding, and also have that action plan to figure out what to do about it, and actually have some sort of solution.”
“Did you ever think that when we did that, that we’d be here a year later not only are people still talking about it, but I gotta tell you, I see the numbers, people are still buying this thing at a very heavy clip, even one year going.”
Lisec responded, “I did have a hunch, that it would become, frankly, a cult classic and not just from the, let’s say, unmissable front cover and title page. The title of the page and book cover itself, the symbolism, and it definitely has a little bit of shock value there, certainly. People say Unhumans, what? Then they read the subtitle, and they go ‘I immediately get it.’”
Lisec said the success of Unhumans was in part due to how it was positioned in the market. “The challenge that we have is when we looked at the competition and looked at the book proposal, all of the competition, the competing books from conservative authors, from professors, they all put communism books in historical nonfiction, which is a distinct category,” he said. “Things that happened in the past for people interested in that thing to read about. But when you go to bookstores nationwide… why section is it in? It’s in current affairs.”
He explained that the decision to file the book under current events reflected the thesis of the work itself. “Because what we recognized is that the template for a far-left wing, sometimes called communism, sometimes called progressivism, sometimes called socialism—we read it as if all these isms are manifestations—”
"In New York they call it democratic socialism,” Posobiec added.
Lisec agreed. “The isms are all the same, and it’s a sense of resentment and envy. Communism and these far-left wing ideologies, they are not philosophies. They are tactics. It’s ‘you have that I want, that’s not fair. Gimme.’ That is left-wing ideology in practice.”
Lisec further explained the meaning behind the book’s title: “The reason that Unhumans works, is it’s a verb. It’s not simply a noun, and it means to deprive someone of their human rights to life, liberty, and property. Which every single socialist, democratic socialist, communist, and every left-wing movement, deprives people [of] in reverse order. First they start to take your land, they take your stuff via taxes and it becomes heavier, and it becomes seizure. Once they have your property they take your civil rights and restrict you.”
“We see it happen consistently with far-left wing parties,” Lisec continued. “Conservatives, Christians, Republicans in this country, targeted.”
“In the book Unhumans, we tell the story of the last 250 years of infiltration and then overthrow of governments around the world,” Posobiec added.
The book, written with Josh Lisec, was launched in 2024 and made a case against communism and its aspects.
On the book’s first anniversary, the authors talked on how the project came together—and why they believe the book has remained relevant.
“When you and I had this idea to write a book about communism, which I remember, actually—I’m not going to name names—there were some people, initially, that we reached out to say we were going to write a book about communism, and they weren’t even interested in this,” Posobiec said. “They said it was done before, why put out another book about something we’ve all heard before?”
“You and I said, we have an angle on it that I don’t think anyone’s tried,” he continued. “To just write a book about communism for the average person to read, so that it’s not meant to be, you know, a philosopher or a professor, or a graduate student-level, just the average. I remember you used to say that we wrote it for soccer moms and little league dads. You can just read it and get a direct understanding, and also have that action plan to figure out what to do about it, and actually have some sort of solution.”
“Did you ever think that when we did that, that we’d be here a year later not only are people still talking about it, but I gotta tell you, I see the numbers, people are still buying this thing at a very heavy clip, even one year going.”
Lisec responded, “I did have a hunch, that it would become, frankly, a cult classic and not just from the, let’s say, unmissable front cover and title page. The title of the page and book cover itself, the symbolism, and it definitely has a little bit of shock value there, certainly. People say Unhumans, what? Then they read the subtitle, and they go ‘I immediately get it.’”
Lisec said the success of Unhumans was in part due to how it was positioned in the market. “The challenge that we have is when we looked at the competition and looked at the book proposal, all of the competition, the competing books from conservative authors, from professors, they all put communism books in historical nonfiction, which is a distinct category,” he said. “Things that happened in the past for people interested in that thing to read about. But when you go to bookstores nationwide… why section is it in? It’s in current affairs.”
He explained that the decision to file the book under current events reflected the thesis of the work itself. “Because what we recognized is that the template for a far-left wing, sometimes called communism, sometimes called progressivism, sometimes called socialism—we read it as if all these isms are manifestations—”
"In New York they call it democratic socialism,” Posobiec added.
Lisec agreed. “The isms are all the same, and it’s a sense of resentment and envy. Communism and these far-left wing ideologies, they are not philosophies. They are tactics. It’s ‘you have that I want, that’s not fair. Gimme.’ That is left-wing ideology in practice.”
Lisec further explained the meaning behind the book’s title: “The reason that Unhumans works, is it’s a verb. It’s not simply a noun, and it means to deprive someone of their human rights to life, liberty, and property. Which every single socialist, democratic socialist, communist, and every left-wing movement, deprives people [of] in reverse order. First they start to take your land, they take your stuff via taxes and it becomes heavier, and it becomes seizure. Once they have your property they take your civil rights and restrict you.”
“We see it happen consistently with far-left wing parties,” Lisec continued. “Conservatives, Christians, Republicans in this country, targeted.”
“In the book Unhumans, we tell the story of the last 250 years of infiltration and then overthrow of governments around the world,” Posobiec added.
