The Artisan class is naturally degenerate, resulting in Communism being warped from an immoral ideology to a morally repugnant one. The reasons they're predisposed towards immoral behavior are: the desire to be different simply for the sake of it, the unrestricted pursuit of pleasure at all costs, blind trust of the media, and cultural weakness.

Old-school Communists supported temperance — one of the most famous anti-alcohol posters came from the USSR, after all — but contemporary Communists are comprised almost entirely of drunkards and drug addicts.

A similar situation happened when the Artisan class seized control of the progressive movement away from the Working class — they went from supporting Prohibition to pushing for the legalization of all drugs over the course of a century. There are still those, such as myself, who subscribe to traditional Progressivism, but we're few in number — replaced by Neo-Progressive Marxists.