Communists are just hippies who are actually willing to fight for a better tomorrow. The biggest political difference between the two groups, as far as I can tell, is that hippies talk a lot about creating change with peace and love, whereas communists talk about change via revolutionary insurrection. For me, it's a question of practicality. While I love a lot of hippie philosophy, I don't find it particularly likely that the heavily armed, extremely powerful Establishment can be defeated with kind words and peaceful protests. If we want to actually achieve a world where the masses don't get fucked over by an elite few, we're going to have to fight for it and we're going to have to be willing to fight for its defense too. There is certainly room for peaceful improvement, but we can't go down that road exclusively or we will surely be defeated.

Workers of the world, unite!