Communism is genius in that it allows the power establishme…
Communism is genius in that it allows the power establishment and its supporters to feel like revolutionaries fighting against an unjust system of oppression -- while being in control of the system of oppression. Their supposed fight against oppression justifies - in their mind - all the oppression and atrocities they commit. They create a system of very real oppression in order to fight imagined oppression (unequal outcomes).
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It's the problem self-identifying as the solution.
yes. it's the psychological trick of false moral righteousness the most powerful drug in the world
Interestingly, the ego works exactly like that. It is a perpetrator that self-identifies as a victim. Either collectivism is the expression of the collective ego, or it was invented by people who knew exactly how to manipulate the ego of others.
You could call the former deluded collectivism and the latter oligarchical collectivism, I suppose.