Amen. Most left-leaning people I know are the most bitter. They rage and complain and are simply never happy with anything, ever, and they don’t really understand why.
The happiest people I know are mostly the ones that don’t follow the news, and have a faith I am envious of. I’m not envious in a bad way, more like they seem to have achieved a goal that I’m striving for.
I have read the Communist Manifesto. My take was that even Marx saw it as non sustainable (ah, that favorite word of the Left). He saw that it was necessary for the capitalists to build up the industries before the great confiscation, after which the “dictatorship of the proletariat “ would be lucky if they could just maintain status quo. Stalin did “expand” the economy in the USSR, by brute force and leaving a trail of ruin.
It was from the beginning an economic and social system that was doomed to failure.