What's so attractive about communism to young people and academics?

What's so attractive about communism to young people and academics?

Free shit

virtue signaling

Doing absolutely nothing while starving to death.

FPBP.

They think shit comes from nothing.

The sense of superiority.

They're a little fucked in the head. Merit is a taboo to their culture.

For the past week I have been trying to find the appeal in communism. Red the manifesto, went to a meeting, smoked weed and tried to find a good point. I could not find a single positive thing about it. I believe that those who advocate for it are either severely mentally retarded, or are trying to be edgy.

Godlnessness.

More like starving to death while mining uranium or some shit.

They see the free college, no more student debt, universal health care, etc, and they think, oh that sounds amazing. But they don't do their research or they get their information by word of mouth instead of simply Googleing it or something. They hear taxes will go up a bit and they think, oh, it won't be so bad, just a bit more tax, that will be better than having to pay premiums or work off a student loan, and they do not realize how incredibly high taxes will be or the fact that this isn't something you pay for until you pay it off, the taxes go up for everyone, until they are put back down. They also don't realize that competition puts prices down and instead think that the government could magically lower prices on goods and services if they were in charge of it. In which case they are wrong as hell.

fpbp

Both of those groups live in an isolated bubble

being detached from reality makes you delusional, it's as simple as that

It's not that they don't have somewhat of a point that captalism wasn't fucked up, but the delusional thing to me seems to be that they somehow think communism was somehow better, or that there wouldn't be any people trying to exploit their power.

it's because technically it can work, but you have to have all the right people running it. USSR fared pretty well for a while with it after the bolsheviks were largely purged, cuba has done pretty well with it also. North Korea has struggled heavily and China has abandoned most communist economic tenants.. all, save for cuba have had lots of death and ecological destruction.

They like the idea of everyone is equal and that if we all have equal shares then no one is above others. A man is worth a women. Black is worth a white...

Then they do the ironic thing and start segregating people and will always thing they will have the more comfier job after the revolution then what they will get.

With communists today, Everyone spreading it wants to be Stalin but would end up as "Dimitri the guy who plows acre 56"

It's not attractive to them. They just want an excuse for being lazy fucks.

if i cant have it, no one can

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But they would like anything that a Jewish comedian tells them to

They have never lived under a communist regime or known any one who has, all they have is the rosy picture painted by old soviet propaganda.

they have no real life experience.

Lack of personal responsibility

Pseudo-intellectual foundation

Ability to pretend to be the underdog even "ugh we never try REAL communism or REAAALLL socialism" (such things are physically impossible, which is why they're never tried)

Aesthetics.
Youth are drawn to bad boy mass movements with pretty flags and fancy hats. Since the superior Nazi choice is banned the youth congregate around off brand Communism instead.