Communists with Puppies and Dogs

Leon Trotsky playing stick with German Shepherds, because before you can bend the stick you have to learn how to fetch it

Soviet anti-tank dogs, dogs taught to carry explosives to tanks, armored vehicles and other military targets. They were intensively trained by the Soviet forces and used in 1941–1942 against German tanks in World War II. In the Battle of Kursk in August 1943, dog bombs took out twelve German Panzer tanks.

Ernest Hemingway hunting with his Black Spaniel dog Blackie, because the the only things you need during revolutionary warfare is an ideal, your rifle and loyal companions.

- Friedrich Engels in a letter to Marie Engels (8 August 1842)

Hugo Chavez with kids and a Mucuchie (Venezuelan sheepdog), because you can't fight imperialism without your loyal tail-wagger by your side.

Jacques Lacan, Cécile Éluard, Pierre Reverdy, Louise Leiris, Zanie Aubier, Pablo Picasso, Valentine Hugo, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus and others posing with Picasso's Afghan Hound dog Kazbek, because former colonial dogs can provide proletarian credentials to radical bourgeois intellectuals and artists .

Frida Kahlo taking a walk with her Xoloitzcuintle dogs, because Marxism will give health to the sick and dogmunism gives love to the alienated, lonely and betrayed.

Loukanikos the Greek riot dog, forever hounding the police and accompanying its comrades in the fight against capitalist austerity.

Dogs on the other hand don't need submission. Dogs are in a dialectical relationship with the subaltern classes as loyal partners in the struggle against bourgeois hegemony and catpitalism.

Einstein once said about Chico: "the dog is very smart, he feels sorry for me because I receive so much mail; that’s why he tries to bite the mailman.". So this good proletarian dog even tried to prevent Einstein from overworking. What cat has done such a caring and noble thing for its owner ever?

Salvador Allende with his Weimaraner dog, because as a popular marxist president you can count more on the loyalty of dogs and the working class than that of cats and generals.

Charlie Chaplin with a dog, because where else does a true communist sympathizer get its inspiration than from the most sympathetic kind of pet in the world.

A young Fidel Castro hunting with his dog, because, either in life in general or in communist guerilla warfare, dogs are the most trustworthy comrades.

Soviet space dogs Belka and Strelka, the first living creatures to visit space and return alive.

Diego Rivera posing with his Xoloitzcuintli dog, because dogs can inspire one to make communist art.

Slavoj Žižek petting someone's dog, because "99% of people are boring idiots" and dogs can help remind us why we need communist revolution.