You are right in your analogy. The communist indoctrination of the working man did it all and the leaders and risk takers were just along for the ride. It serves their propose to have people believe that and that todays élite will show the working class they way out. That way out includes giving up your rights for some safety and security.
“You Will Own Nothing and You Will Be Happy”
I didn’t express it very well, but yes.
Makes me think it finally occurred to blacks that they could use the same mantra that “building”/manual labor is the end-all, be-all.
Long history of “working class” union propoganda in this country by now. Including the epithet “robber barons”. At least when applied to guys who got it done like Rockefeller and Vanderbilt, etc.