This Review of Lord of the Rings in Red Law communist newspaper in Prague from 1977 will blow your mind!

The Ring will not destroy socialism!

I do not know to be frank if it would blow your mind but when you already got here so just the hell die reading it. xD

The Ring will not destroy socialism!

It's another attack against socialist establishment. The empire of evil, from which trundles ash and smoke, is transparently placed in the East. Picture of working class, which united and with sweat in its faces builds heavy industry, are the vile and evil orcs. Of course, that sonny of bourgeois family cannot see anything beautiful and exhilarating on hard work. Inhabitants of the West, lands abounding by milk and honey, elves (or aristocracy), people (bourgeois) and hobbits (farmers) live conversely in affluence (without explanation from where it is coming from) and the only thing which worries them is a "threat" from the East. "Forces of good" are here presented as a collection of these reactionary circles who's hands never touched a work. Their leader is Gandalf, promoter of backward ideology, with its help keeps population in ignorance and fear of progress(...). No wonder then, that Saruman, an advocate of oppressed and friend of progress, is declared a traitor and his residence is destroyed by a militia of fanatic reactionaries. Then, when he is spreading a socialism in Shire, he is captured and without trial punished by hobbits, supported and financed by a capitalist power Gondor. (...) But fortunately socialism can't be destroyed by hurling any of its relic, even be holiest, to the fire. Hold on Mordor, surrounded by enemy reactionary neighbours!