The Quixotic Appeal of Communism/Socialism

I have finally come to an understanding of the persistent, mysterious appeal of communism/socialism despite its perennial failure to deliver the material prosperity it always promises in order to sell itself: it's like injecting heroin. It is something one engages in, not for what it ultimately accomplishes, but for how it makes one feel to be doing it at the time. One who has been taught to value feelings above thought, and indoctrinated to believe that inequality is inherently evil, will accept or do almost anything that promises equality -- even in poverty and decline -- in preference to horrid inequality -- even in wealth and improvement.

No feedback is allowed. Comparing results to promises would be bourgeois treason. Besides, the proponents, quite realistically, admit that the process of getting to the promised "nirvana" will be hellish anyway, so when millions suffer and die, the prediction only seems all the more accurate. Since the goal is total equality, why worry if all it produces is misery leading to death? The more widespread the suffering, the greater the equality, reaching perfection in death. By those lights, worse actually is better, and there's no such thing as "too far left."

As to whether some supernatural malign power guides and directs such activity, or if mere human malice aforethought is all that is necessary, I cannot say. But the results, in either case, are indistinguishable.