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[–]carn0ld03 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

And has been since the mid 1800's.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

That's true. Communism appeals largely to the Artisan class (white-collar workers), so as soon as it was invented: it became popular among journalists.

[–]carn0ld03 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

They're a tiny, but very politically active subset of a larger population. From my own observations, I'm surprised more people haven't noticed that it's primarily the morally ill, the mentally ill, and other people who've been generally categorized as psychotics and delusional that tend to endorse such erroneous ideologies.

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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.

[–]carn0ld03 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Well, a lot of women and effete males subscribe to progressivism, not understanding that it's also a liberal ideology that inevitably brings one to the stream of Marxist thought.