What keeps it alive is people who believe that a Utopia is achievable, where everyone has an equal outcome, nobody goes hungry, nobody wants, and everyone shares in decision making, coupled with the evil that is innate and present in mankind to leverage people’s desire for utopia for their own power and wealth.
Free stuff will always be powerful. Absolute power is even better.
I had to read this a few times, but it's entirely true. The author is both a student and a scholar.
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Lies, envy, and hatred keeps communism alive.
Communism/Marxism is the ideological extreme, in form, of “self-denial”, “self-delusion”, “poor self image”, “internalized social ills guilt”, and a lack of education about “extremisms”.
It is the “Ying and the Yang of the mind”, a perpetual battle between “good and evil”, “the TRUTH and the LIE”, “one’s ability to seek and find facts/truths versus and one’s ability self delusion because of a weak mental self-esteem that helps to internalized thinking weaknesses”.
THESE are what communism is so good at exploiting, manipulating, preying upon, and creating a whole system of “thought reform” (Lifton), “Brainwashing” (Ed Hunter), and believable “Disinformation” because the weak-minded are so susceptible to it and often want to believe anything against their “perceived, often fake” enemies.
This is why our educational systems are in such horrible shape - due to decades of Marxist and liberal dupes infiltration, taking over of administrations, buying Marxist, anti-American textbooks, and having guest lecturers who are mentally ill, traitors, and just plain mental fools.