I think you nailed it.
Old crappy Russian rifles.
Kids convinced by their commie professors that oppression is everywhere. None of them smart enough to look at those professors and see how capitalist they are. Great salaries. Work a few days a week. Summers and holidays off. Have grad students do most of their work. Can’t get fired. And recite the same nonsense semester after semester.
There was an economics professor at UMASS. Word was you couldn’t compare the notes of each class from one person to someone that took the class 5 years earlier. Exactly the same.
Someone posted a PSA on one of their FB pages:
Redneck Revolt= A gaggle or spoiled liberal college kids from an upper-middle class background who like the color red and hate their parents, led by their aging and balding professor that claims he’s a Marxist but actually just runs a violent gang on behalf of the elite and the status quo.