And they're too dumb to realize if they do they're going to starve.
No, we’ll starve. We are the Kulaks to them, the ones who worked and saved and owned.
They worship sheer naked power. They will join the Nomenklatura and become the camp guards with power of life and death. They have no principles, so they can join whomever comes out on top. Those who have principles and refuse, must die beccause their very existence proclaims the evil of the winners. The winners cannot tolerate the survival of anyone who plays by the old rules of Right and Wrong.
Starving is just part of it.
LLS