[SandRat]

The disenchantment of the majority of intellectuals did not surprise Lenin, who saw the old Russian intelligentsia as a kind of rival to his "party of a new type," which alone could bring revolutionary consciousness to the working class. In his view, artists generally served bourgeois interests, a notion that fueled the persecution of intellectuals throughout the Soviet period.

Funny, to gain power they court the "intellectuals" and who do they round up and send to the gulags first? The "intellectuals!"

One would think that the "intellectuals" could read history and learn from it. Then again they are "intellectuals."

[JudgemAll]

Intellectuals are tenured idiots who are not chosen by markets or by their work worth, but by committee judges and proofs and references. The intellectuals are bitter and suspicious at the capitalists who seem to make it with gut instinct and without proving his plan will work.

So the smart arse intellectual decides to ask the working proletaria it can easily manipulate, impress and mystify, to join forces against the suspicious, if not, guilty capitalists. Of course the workers are not there to accept the imposed rules of the intellectuals, which are more disastrous, less workable and less "optionable" than market "rules". So they revolt against the intellectuals. Of course, the only winner in the utopia of the materless communist society is the remaining master who rules over every single detail of society without intermediary judges, but puppet judges acting under direct orders of enforcement.

Yep, when they kill all the masters, only one master remains at the helm of this human life sewage system. No good did goes unpunished, and whoever can advertise doing something wicked is most likely to be admired.