> I don't understand the siren call of Communism on early XX - midcentury intellectuals I think it boils down to “enemy of my enemy”. Their main enemy was the

> I don't understand the siren call of Communism on early XX - midcentury intellectuals I think it boils down to “enemy of my enemy”. Their main enemy was the establishment, which means capitalism, corporatism and so on. Communism was its declared enemy number one, so to be edgy and radical they picked that. If the West was trampling over some poor country, whatever that country’s political or cultural preferences, they automatically become appealing to anti-establishment intellectuals in the West as a way to show sympathy.