It's not fashionable. Their memes and reach are nowhere compared to /pol/'s in popularity. It's just that they have literal paid agents of billions and the state gives their terrorism free reign. They are literally everything they hate yet they still pretend they are the friend of the working class proletarian. Give for example the german federation of employers, basically the largest union of companies in Germany when they released this
<Time for a robust defence of our democray
<For months now imposes itself in many parts of Europe suspected that the Germans might be ruled by loopy gut politicians. Who on the evening of 11/17/2015 followed the broadcast after the canceled football match in Hanover press conference, should now have full assurance.
<Who, as sopposed to the leadership, has his ear to the population knows that the uncertainty already grows every day. And there are neither Pegida-protesters or neo-Nazis, but ordinary citizens, who get more uncomfortable day.[…]
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<There are families with children who need to pay off a house loan while plot value falls, because it is surrounded by refugee camps.
<There are citizens who are frisked before a measly flight within Europe as felons and may bring in the meticulously carried out passport control half an hour, while at the same time thousands of tolerated illegal border crossings, are indeed promoted.
<There are single mothers who listen with anxious ears rumors about tax increases and rising health insurance premiums.
Source: http://www.deutscherarbeitgeberverband.de/aktuelles/2015_12_21_dav_aktuelles_wehrhafte-demokratie.html
They are destroying the work classing. They are funded by billionaires and call themselves communists. They are promoted and given constant passes by the state itself while they call themselves anarchists. Modern communism is a joke. They are just the ultimate useful idiots of the elite.