“1960s free love ping”
Everyone with an interest in this subject should read every word of this book, carefully:
http://www.amazon.com/Dawn-Decadence-Western-Cultural-Present/dp/0060928832
It gave me a whole new perspective on both the emergence of communism in Russia and the 1960s. It can be seen that all these phenomena are instances of the extrusion of the same force.
These movements all seem to have a few things in common, and the most conspicuous of these is *more sex.* Go with us, and you’ll have sexual access to a larger number of partners.
This effort to ban marriage shows me that communism is far from dead in Russia.
You are correct. And far from dead in many other parts of the world.