The only difference is that they want EVERYONE on the plantation, now, not just black people. And the elite may be people of various color, but all one creed — Marxism.
I understand your point and sort of agree with it. Now toss Liberation Theology, preached by Rev. Wright and others, into the equation, and the social structure could be two sets of peasants. Those with the means to (previously) support themselves and those that were previously held in bondage by the gov’t with ineffective social policies, that will continue supported by the first set of peasants.