Communism is intellectual cotton candy for people with childish minds. It’s economic junk food. Easy sell to people who possess no discipline at all.
It appeals to emotionally immature people.
I sometimes wonder if this current leftist movement isn’t a cancer of sorts.
Started by the USSR infiltrating our government and universities with Marxist agents (as proven by the great McCarthy) they sowed the seeds or cancer cells.
Now even though the USSR has collapsed this disease has metastasized and became its own force here in the leading nation of the free world—or once was.
Good description.
I would say Marxism attracts those who want to control other people. Like Obama, Hillary, etc.
“Communism is intellectual cotton candy for people with childish minds. It’s economic junk food. Easy sell to people who possess no discipline at all.”
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This.
Because communism works, but only among small, trusted groups: like family, small circle of friends, maybe a classroom.
But as soon as the group gets large enough, corruption, laziness, lack of innovation (ie, no incentives), lack of accountability, and greed inevitably take over. Leadership then quickly morphs from altruism into tyranny.
But this is not taught in our schools, not exemplified in our media, not identified in the news, not recounted in history. The weak minded are then malinformed and exploited. Those who produce and have are vilified by those who consume and don’t have.
You nailed it. The left teaches their followers to be simple minded, and communism can be framed extremely simply