>>10811157He came from a family of seven, his dad was already in the communist party (although the rest of the family was catholic) and he remembers walking to school, very young, without shoes. Growing up in real poverty in the 1930s is something I know I can't imagine, so I understand that he could see no other solution but radical communism.
I think that leftism is a mental illness in the middle class, but in the real poverty class it is just a sign of honest desperation.
Thanks for answering :-)