“Gramsci meant that Marxists must change the residually Christian mind...so that it would become not merely a non-Christian mind, but an anti-Christian mind.” Our purpose,” Gramsci wrote, “is not to change the course of history but to change the nature of man.”
You have identified the root of the matter and, as the author goes on to say, in order to change the nature of man the collectivist, the elitists must inevitably resort to ever-increasing and brutal doses of force.
Since the mind of man is wonderfully inventive, these elitists are never short of justification for turning the thumbscrews. They are doing it for the children, for African-Americans, for Native Americans, for women, for immigrants who cross the border for love, for the planet. As is written somewhere, they call good evil and evil good.
There is no end to the good they do and no end to the evil they do doing good.
