According to Osho, the New Left youth turning to him is not a distortion but an evolution—from failed collective revolution to personal rebellion (sannyas). Revolutions imitate the enemy and breed new prisons; rebellion transforms oneself, refuses borrowed ideologies, and embodies love, meditation, and freedom. Thus, Italian leftists choosing sannyas signify maturity beyond Left/Right, choosing inner change over violent struggle.
They didn’t get tricked; they grew up—from trying to fix the world by fighting others to fixing themselves with love and calm.