It’s the elites who are the big promoters collectivism and the poor don’t mind. Why? Because collectivism only benefits those two extremes of society. Everyone else has a bend over and...
Until, of course, the productive class is all gone. Then the Ruling Class squeezes the Serf Class and shrinks as production supports fewer and fewer Rulers and apparatchiks. The internecine back knifing among the rulers ramps up as the general famine is approached.