"Imagine no possessions / I wonder if you can / No need for greed or hunger / A brotherhood of man..." John Lennon's 1971 earworm wasn't just a peace-and-love anthem – it was sugar-coated communism, a velvet-gloved pitch for the same property-abolishing utopia that Marx preached and Stalin enforced with gulags. Fast-forward to 2025, and the WEF's "You'll own nothing and you'll be happy" is the same snake oil in Davos-branded packaging. The socialist Left – from Bernie Sanders' "free" college to AOC's Green New Deal – peddles the fantasy of distributing wealth they never created, all while clutching their own fortunes. But zoom in on Lennon, the millionaire Beatle crooning from his Ascot mansion, and the hypocrisy detonates like a bad acid trip.

Lennon wasn't imagining his possessions vanishing. He was imagining yours. The song's profits? Straight to his bank account – not the poor. This is the Left's eternal grift: Preach communal sharing while hoarding the mic, the mansion, and the millions. History screams the warning: Abolish private property, and you don't get brotherhood – you get bureaucrats, billionaires, and bread lines.

Lennon's "Imagine": Communism with a Backbeat, Hypocrisy in Harmony

Released amid Vietnam protests and Cold War chill, "Imagine" hit #3 on Billboard – a capitalist chart Lennon supposedly despised. Lyrics paint a borderless, religion-free, possession-free paradise: "Imagine all the people / Sharing all the world..." Poetic? Sure. Practical? Hell no.

No possessions → No incentive. Who farms if the harvest is "shared"? Who innovates if the patent is communal?

No countries → No sovereignty. Open borders sound groovy until cartels and chaos cross.

No religion → No moral anchor. Lennon's atheism ignored how faith fuels charity (churches feed more poor than governments).

But the kicker? Lennon penned this from Tittenhurst Park – a 72-acre English estate with 23 bedrooms, bought for £150,000 (~$2M today). He owned five apartments in NYC's Dakota, fur coats for Yoko, and a Rolls-Royce fleet. When he died in 1980, his estate was worth $275M (2025 dollars: ~$1B). Did "Imagine" royalties fund communes? Nope – they funded Yoko's art collection and Sean's trust fund.

Profits from the single? Over $20M lifetime, all to private hands. Lennon even sued to block a cover by a charity – because his intellectual property mattered. "No possessions"? Try "no your possessions."

Lennon Lyric: Reality Check

Hypocrisy Level: High!

"Imagine no possessions"

Owned multiple mansions, yachts, art

"Nothing to kill or die for"

Lived behind gates, bodyguards

"Sharing all the world"

Royalties to private estate, not poor

"A brotherhood of man"

Sued charities over covers

Marx to Lennon to WEF: Same Dream, Different Packaging – All End in Serfdom

The through-line is crystal: Abolish private property to end inequality. Marx: Seize means of production. Lennon: Imagine it away. WEF's Ida Auken (2016): "You'll own nothing" via subscriptions – but who owns the platforms? Bezos, Schwab's cronies.

WEF flips it: Mega-corps own everything; you rent. Neo-feudalism, not utopia.

The Left's "free stuff" playbook:

1.Promise utopia: Free healthcare, housing, UBI.

2.Seize wealth: Tax "billionaires" (they never created).

3.Distribute via state: Bureaucrats skim, cronies feast.

4.Result: Venezuela – oil wealth "shared" into hyperinflation.

Lennon's estate? Still private. Yoko's net worth: $700M. No "brotherhood" dividends.

Why Property = Freedom: Locke's Truth the Left Ignores

John Locke (1689): You own your labour → you own its fruits → government protects, doesn't redistribute. Property isn't greed; it's agency. Without it:

No incentive: Soviet farms failed while US suburbs thrived.

No accountability: Who fixes the communal tractor?

No dignity: Renting your life from BlackRock or Beijing.

The Left's envy equation: Entrepreneurs create 99% of wealth, capture 1% → "unfair!" Reality: That 1% funds schools, hospitals, iPhones. Workers' wages rose 1,000% under capitalism; 0% under communism.

The Real "Imagine": Property for All, Not None

Want less inequality? Expand ownership, don't abolish it.

Stakeholder capitalism (not WEF's version): Employee stock, homestead acts.

Crypto/DeFi: Individuals own digital assets, bypass banks.

Tradable carbon credits: Property rights in air? Turns greens into capitalists.

Lennon's dream dies in practice: North Korea "owns nothing" for citizens – except misery. Cuba's "free" healthcare? Doctors moonlight as taxi drivers.

The Left's Eternal Grift: Your Wealth, Their Sermon

From Lennon's Dakota penthouse to AOC's $174K salary (plus book deals), the pattern holds: Preach poverty, live plush. "Imagine" streams 5M times monthly on Spotify – royalties to Universal Music, not the proletariat.

The song's true lyric: "Imagine no possessions... except mine."

Socialism isn't sharing – it's seizure. Lennon imagined your wallet empty. Keep it full. Own something. Be free.

John Lennon: Communist cosplay from a capitalist castle. And he is dead now, but an example of the chattering class in hypocritical action.

https://www.spectator.com.au/2025/11/imagine-no-possessions/