The only mature adults (and I use that term "mature" very loosely) that profess collectivism are those that use it to deceive followers into supporting a hidden agenda which leads to a totalitarian regime in which those "mature" adults rule the roost.
It's a tool...a lie.
It's a path right back to the good old plantation.
It is amazing that Blacks are capable of being fooled by such a ploy. People who fall for socialism are basically supporting their own slavery. They are saying "I'm for sale to a massa who will take care of me. And the price of ownership is just the promise of basic but equal care."
There is no true communism. There is only the same old command-and-control regime dressed up with words like “social justice”, “equality”, and “hail to the Master”. It is the politics of the anthill. Nobody overthrows the queen, or challenges the guardians. The workers simply do their duty, existing for a brief period, then they die and are disposed of by the other ants.
Except that people are not quite the same as ants. Every once in a while, unlike ants, a group of people will assault the guardians and overcome the queen, to establish a new hierarchy, in most instances just as oppressive as the old one, but with different players.
Occasionally, the revolution takes another turn, in which a new concept of individual rights is recognized, and a sort of democratic rule is established. But democracy, in and of itself, is an uncertain means of governing the tribe, or a clan, or a nation, as factions cannot agree to differing goals, and eventually a new strongman emerges, to stop all the bickering.
The further refinement of this concept, is to establish a representative republic, in which the great mass of people do not vote on each question that comes, but the factions each elect a representative to consolidate and assert a particular point of view, and the various representatives meet and discuss the options for compromise and resolution.
At least, that is the way it is supposed to be, until some certain of the representatives of the people start kicking down the carefully crafted and agreed upon set of rules and compromises, as we see happening on a regular basis nowadays. These irregular representatives no longer see the need for compromise and resolution, they would rather keep the issue, and with it, their grievances.
And with that, we have reversion to the same old command-and-control regime. Another name, different promises, maybe, but the same old switcheroo in which the promises are never meant to be kept.