Eureka! I’ve just invented a new field of study: Psychology of Socialism and Communism.
Hypothesis time!
According to Freud, we are to “work and to love.” Yet, there are many who snarl at both. Disenchanted, possibly, by being overworked and underloved, they became jaded.
Rest is important. States other than love are important.
Recall the film “Wall-E?” Those people didn’t work and didn’t love–at all. What, plausibly, came of that? Well: obesity, stupidity, loneliness.
Contrarywise, we do also know that overwork and overlove (eg., codependency) can have those same effects.
Mixed market capitalism strikes a balance, freeing us to work and to love without going to extremes.
In socialism and communism, we’d become Wall-E characters with no way out because we’d all be dumb. The same holds true for unfettered capitalism.
