Karl Marx's 'Capital' still confers prestige on students and professors who aspire to be revolutionaries without risking their lives... Campus communism offers an easy way to appear edgy yet intellectual.
In America, communism is a status marker especially on college campuses, where it allows individuals to seem both rebellious and sophisticated despite its grim historical legacy.
The Marxist-Leninists of old knew you couldn't make an omelet without breaking the eggs, and class enemies deserve to die anyway; this sentiment echoes in some modern leftist circles.
Despite communism's dark history, it gains traction in modern America, suggesting a disconnect between its intellectual allure on campuses and the real-world implications of its ideologies.
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