Why does Alice get a say in what you can or can't get at the restaurant? Does she think this is Wonderland or something?

Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.
—  Karl Marx, Grundrisse, 1858

As we approach Thanksgiving under lockdown, it's worth noting that it was started by people who would be called "leftists" today but the term didn't exist yet.  In fact, they're one of the most important groups of people who realized that leftism doesn't work and changed.

It makes me wonder if that's one of the points of Christianity, to provide so much motivation for leftism for so long.  I assume that the New Testament, along with the Old Testament and Koran, were partially about God engaging His adversary.  There's more to it than that, of course, but part of it was to give the adversary tactics to use, which will fail in the long run but is also a conflict that's way above our paygrades.  And of course the respective scriptures provide help for the individuals among them.

Of course leftism doesn't want any individuals except the people in charge.  Those people can even claim to be Christian as long as they're devoted to leftist dogma, i.e. No God Allowed.

Anyway, not having been raised with religion, I don't really know what the experience was like and even then it would be impossible to comprehend what it was like over 400 years ago.  John Smith infamously said "He who does not work shall not eat" around the same time and it's not hard to see that being for multiple possible reasons.

But it was realizing the need for individual ability that brought them success and centuries worth of influence.  If everybody gets the same thing regardless of how hard or well they work, there's no point in doing anything.  That was the spell the Pilgrims were under when they arrived and it took a year or so of suffering to realize there was another option.

That is what leftism is against, "from each according to his ability to each according to his need" according to whoever gets to make the decisions that everyone else must obey without question.  It never works and never will but that's what they have always gone for.

Ok, that's a good insight, I can use that.  My next theory is that it's why feudalism is their ideal society, assuming that they won't be the peons and they'll get to command everyone else who is because that's what not being an individual is about to them.