Contrast the centrally planned system with a capitalistic democracy. All the intellectual gets to say is, "Leave things alone, the people can generally take care of themselves." That's it. No central planning, no grand schemes to remake the world, just a simple, "let it be." And whereas an intellectual can spend decades trying to mold his ideal society, free-market democracy can be summed up in a few paragraphs. Not at all sexy.
Of course, then you've got rank idiots who talk about the cleansing effects of violence, and speak with glee about the actions of, say, Sandanista executioners. These would-be Genghis Khan's are just a collection of pathetic Walter Mittys who vicariously imagine themselves toting AK-47's and gunning down capitalists because they're pale, skinny men who in an actual fight would get their a**es kicked. Indeed, the impulse that applauds the Vietcong carrying out massacres is the same that causes an alienated teenager to play games in which he imagines himself a barbarian warrior. Okay, done rambling.