Stephen Kotkin

But that empowers them to be in charge.

So the beauty of Marxism-Leninism and why what we used to call the third world loves this.

is because they get to be in power.

It empowers them across the board.

They get to make the decisions on the economy.

And they don't have to submit to elections.

They don't have to have a mandate.

They don't have to legitimate their rule beyond the ideological building of a new world of overcoming injustice.

So what we see again and again is young people being impatient,

for evil to end, but also empowering themselves to be in charge.

They love the state.

They love the state as an instrument for social justice, social engineering.

They love to empower themselves as the decision makers, because after all, they're the intellectuals.

They've studied the theory.

They know better than others.

Workers and peasants and the downtrodden, the lower classes, they sometimes have false consciousness.

They don't understand.

Why?

For example, we have imperialist war.

They get sucked in.