>>2401959it gives people, especially young people, ESPECIALLY young males, a sense of meaning in their lives.
when your culture is a vacuous consumerist mess, some people naturally crave something more savory to their pop-culture diet of le ironic cartoons for "adults".
add to this a complete lack of real political wisdom in the system, and you find that people start looking for a cause in the seemingly more meaningful past. they find early 20th century communism and fascist and their imagery, and decide to roll with it, regardless of how horridly incompatible both ideologies are with the realities of the 21st century.
