I don't know how many others do too, but I think that's some pretty bloomer shit to be able to believe you'll be around for communism. What can it hurt to believe we're closer to it than we think?
I mean if folks don't believe it's going to happen, they might not feel like putting in extra work. But if it's around the corner, we can do little steps in our lives to make things better faster.
This reminds me of one of the coping skills I have for living in a horrific capitalist dystopia. Remember when you were a bored kid and used to internally pretend to be, like, a kidnapped princess? An undercover spy? A secret alien or someone with superpowers? I do this, but instead I pretend that I'm already living under fully-automated luxury gay space communism. Like, that plastic I feel bad about consuming? It's biodegradable and made from mushrooms, actually. Everything is fine.
I like to pretend that I'm a communist revolutionary and not a useless shitposter.