It&#x27;s weird how this mirrors what you see with terrorists. Terrorists are middle-class or upper-middle-class with very, very few poor among them.<p>I don&#x27;t think that the &quot;daily struggle for survival&quot; is it. Rather I think that the fact that poor are constantly forced to confront themselves with reality and living with others that makes them less likely to join movements like this.<p>Also, as a worker you&#x27;d have direct contact with members of this party (because you don&#x27;t get to choose the people you hang out with). It is much, much harder to tell yourself a fictional story about what drives them. About what they&#x27;d do if given power. By contrast you regularly find insane positions among the upper classes. How hard is it to find an upper-middle-class or higher Marxist on a university campus ? Not very hard, despite the fact that he wouldn&#x27;t be there in the system they advocate. Hell, there&#x27;s Malthusians among them too, whereas I&#x27;ve yet to meet the first poor worker defending the virtues of killing of &quot;enough&quot; of the human race for a &quot;sustainable population of Earth&quot; to me.<p>Having illusions about &quot;grandeur&quot; of race, of inherent virtues of one group versus another, about the &quot;good of the human race&quot;, ... is far easier when you&#x27;re not confronted with the underbelly of any city on a daily basis ... when you&#x27;re only confronted with who you choose to be confronted with.