My wife asks me this question all the time referring to liberals in general: “What do they think will happen to them when they get rid of all [businesses/energy production/wealth]?”
My only answer in that they always think they will be e empt. I think of the Irish gang scene in “Gangs of New York” where the mobs are breaking into rich peoples’ houses. The rich people kill a few then are overwhelmed.
I think leftists can be divided into 5 basic groups:
1. Current Bosses (top party leaders in existing socialist countries)
2. Wannabe Bosses (they imagine that they someday will be a Current Boss in a socialist country, this includes lower-level apparatchik in existing socialist countries and dream-scheming leftists in places like the US, where socialist bosses don’t yet have total control)
3. Resigned Apparatchik (lower-level apparatchik in existing socialist countries who realize they are never going to be Current Bosses but have resigned themselves to being cogs in the socialist machine, and see no future for themselves outside of that machine)
4. Wild-eyed Utopian Dreamers (almost exclusively in countries where Current Bosses don’t yet have total control, these dreamers actually believe the Big Lie that socialism will create a utopia for all people)
5. Gimme Dats (in both pure socialist countries and in places like the US where socialism hasn’t yet completely triumphed, these people don’t think much about politics, only how much they can get from the system for free freely free... this group tends to become extremely disillusioned in places like the Utopian Paradise of Venezuela but cannot imagine any system other than freebees given freely to the gimme dats, so they blame the current leaders for screwing up or the evil US for throwing a monkey wrench into the system)
In the United States, young socialists in universities are (in my opinion) 70% Wannabe Bosses and 30% Wild-eyed Stupidos