This is the Ant Death Spiral. Ants end up following the pheromones of one another, and they get stuck like this and eventually they can die of exhaustion.
This is a metaphor for society.
what you must remember about disco elysium's depiction of the student communists: yes, they're silly, self-defeating, slightly unhinged, out-of-touch losers. but most importantly they're 100% correct