Then they threw it all away and went full WTF I LOVE BIG COPRORATIONS NOW when they realized they could get the kind of cancel culture they wanted but couldn't enforce through unconstitutional hate-speech laws if they just sucked up to people like like Facebook, and Master Card and Media Conglomerates to unperson you for nebulous TOS violations or otherwise make it impossible to complete the daily transactions required to be self-employed and a content creator if you didn't hate orangeman. Once they realized that these big companies were willing to enforce punishment on the customer bases for wrongthink, or at least start up massive campaigns to shame them (Hello Gillette), they lost any and all credibility towards any notion of real economic reform (or real genuine love of communism). If they really loved Communism with any sincerity, they wouldn't have torpedoed Bernie in back-to-back years.
When the big mega corps were found to be amenable to censoring Republicans, guess who were their new best-est friends?
20 years of probably-insincere activism against the worst excesses of capitalism turned into shameless dick-sucking of those same places, overnight. As long as they agreed to fire all the racists (and "racists" ).
Their loyalty always lies with whatever institution gives them the greatest chance at controlling the most people... which is why they jumped from Academia to big biz when the early 00's became the 10's, colleges having saddled you with a lot of undischarged debt, weren't exactly the heroes of society anymore, and you can always just blame the recession on Bush and the Banks..... soooo.. I LOVE AMAZON AND WAL MART AND MONSANO NOW! ALWAYS DID!