I laugh at the people here believing these people are altruistic. What a bunch of trolls.
Ted Turner was a fanatical supporter of the Soviet Union. He has never met a communist dictator he didn’t like, from Ortega to Castro. He’s the epitome of the super elite Marxists that run this country. Trust him. Yeah, sure.
Leaving aside the initial band of Eastern European immigrants at the turn of the century, the Marxists in the US have ALWAYS been from the upper classes; back in the 30s, a lot of them were from old money and old families, now they’re new money.
I think you could probably speculate that the new money (Gates, for example) was recruited through the foundations of the older money (Ford, Rockefeller, etc.).
It was also true in England that the Marxists were virtually always from upper class families - remember Kim Philby and the gang?