Communism is a hoax. Lenin realized it as did Marx. You stir up the idiots, lie to them, promise them everything until you get in power. You give them something to hope for.
You find middlemen willing to take a cut in exchange for keeping their people in a frenzy and filled with hatred. You preach to them, you throw them insignificant bones that the people that they are told to hate pay for.
While all of this is going on, you loot the treasury.
The left is nothing more than common criminals, paying off those willing to participate and punishing those who refuse to pay.
They are more than common criminals, they are more like socialist mafia.