Was this a metaphor for the sixties?

No not really. You know nothing about communist leaders. Fascist leaders are totalitarian lunatics. They have to force this forced labor work until you die neo-feudal way of life on us.

"Most likely they have been indoctrinated into it by their university. "
LOL Typical myth believed by uneducated morons. Universities rarely if ever speak anything of communism. If anything they teach economics from the point of view of the what they call the producers and the rest of us are called the "consumers" as in like the matrix, we are their milk cows. The documentary Thrive blows this all out of the water and points out that we are seen as farm animals and each nation is a giant farm. Business Schools in Universities teach young people the most complex and devious ways of how to cheat lie and steal the money out of the uneducated by using capitalism to their advantage and to the disadvantage of the workers and the consumers who are constantly squeezed like lemons until they can produce no more blood. Then they turn around and fool you uneducated sobs into thinking they were teaching communism all along.

Everything used to be free at one time. Food was abundant and everywhere. We used to build one another's homes like the Amish do in the matter of a week for FREE. Now you have to work until you're in your 70s to pay off your home. There was an island in the south Atlantic just like this not too long ago where just dropping your line in the water and slapping the water with a rod would catch a huge tuna. After an hour of fishing and 16 huge tuna later the entire village would eat for free for a week on 1 hour of work. Since it was covered on the Outdoor Life network sports fishermen found out about it. What do you think those bastards did next? You guessed it. All for profits of winning trophies and capitalist profits they fished out the place and now even the sharks are hungry. Under capitalism 50% of the food is totally wasted and yet they are destroying our life support system overfishing the hell out of the oceans, and throwing it out and depleting the soil of nutrients so it requires fossil fuel based fertilizers to replenish it, only to throw 50% of that food out. Look up this headline "Farmers destroying crops". So they've locked up the food, locked up the land and contaminated our water so we have to pay THEM for water.

Everyone in the North and South American west is miserable. Capitalism has destroyed cultures and freedom and collapsed nations. In the Great Recession capitalism had to be bailed out by socialism. This pandemic is the ultimate judgement of the failure of capitalism because consider if this was Ebola. Would they force the planes to stay on the ground if that had gotten out? One wonders. I hope survival would be more important than corporate profits, however the madness of this greed is that it is not likely, they would rather half a billion people die than let their businesses fail.

Everyone wants to make enough money to get out of here. That's the American dream now. There are droves of True Believers like yourself that become so disillusioned with it they want to drop out and move to Thailand and find an easy wife or 3 girlfriends. I know one of these ahole turkey Trumpers.

The only thing hurting communist countries today are the embargoes placed upon them by capitalist ones because they can't dare let it out and be known that everything was free at one time and could be again. This is especially true of Venezuela. Look up: US coup against Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, 2002.
The US has been harassing them and attempting coup after coup upon them for 2 decades just because they were giving their oil away for free and offering it to the poor in the US for free during the Great Recession. It was both a major embarrassment for Bush and made the Big Oil multinationals piss in their diapers that the idea of free energy could be possible. You see they've had this stranglehold upon us forcing us into this ancient POS ICE technology for 140 years and driven us into many deadly and pointless and nearly endless wars because of it. The capitalist west can't bare the fact that some people just want to live as they damn well please and show that an alternative to their slave based society actually exists.

Human nature is genetically designed so that we help one another. Not compete with one another. Not sure where you get your perverted ideas but as relatively defenseless animals we could never have survived in ancient times without cooperation.