Ayn Rand explained it well.
The root cause is the basic error in philosophy most people have.
They mistakenly think that altruism is a virtue and so communism is an ideal, if only they could make it work.
In other words, despite the track record of 100 million deaths, many people think communism is an ideal and if only human nature was different, or, if only we tried harder this time...
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