Photographs of Canadian singer Grimes doing some light reading with a copy of Karl Marx' "The Communist Manifesto" in hands went viral, but did not exactly appeal to leftists on social media.

Grimes, who recently split with world's on-and-off richest man Elon Musk after three years and one son together, was photographed yesterday reading Karl Marx' and Friedrich Engels' "The Communist Manifesto," of of the defining work of communist literature.

Grimes in Los Angeles today.

Photography by Jvshvisions pic.twitter.com/b2kemGSYhU

— GRIMES CHARTS (@GrimezszCharts) October 2, 2021

The jump from dating a multi-billionaire to studying on seizing the means of production that Grimes accomplished in a span of one week did not go unnoticed. Whether Grimes is posing, coping, trolling or doing praxis is open to interpretation, and social media got interpreting.

the irony of Grimes having someone take fake candids of her pretending to read the communist manifesto in an outfit that costs more than my entire salary for a year https://t.co/ekYtEXOwvl

— shitter Unique and Digitally Scarce (cavegremlin) October 2, 2021

we've seen lots of divorced guys, now introducing the divorced woman https://t.co/L6DEqh2o82

— Allergic to my own Swag (@coherentstates) October 2, 2021

marx failed to consider a celebrity posing with the communist manifesto after breaking up with the richest man in the world https://t.co/7NMYVpBgsu

— Bes D. Marx (@besf0rt) October 3, 2021

There were some memes to be made.

Grimes doing some light reading pic.twitter.com/hMBGGEnz2o

— jon drake (@DrakeGatsby) October 2, 2021

Grimes pic.twitter.com/nWI3oxWrho

— Dr Gay (@penismouth3) October 3, 2021

According to Grimes herself, that day she was bothered by paparazzi so she put on an act by grabbing a copy of Marx' work and did a little trolling. She also wrote that she is not a communist, but is rather more interested in "radical decentralized UBI that could potentially be achieved thro crypto and gaming" (although, by her own admission, she hasn't ironed that idea out enough yet).

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Will Grimes complete her exploration of remaining political compass quadrants remains to be seen. She did try to sell her soul once and named her son X Æ A-12, so experiments like that is not something the Canadian singer would shy away from.