I am at least consoled knowing that when the marxists do formally seize power, the college professor/intellectual class will be the first ones purged, exactly like Stalin did.
Ultimately he knew that those who could persuade the masses that started the revolution would naturally be the most dangerous to him. so he purged them including many of his staunchest supporters from the beginning.
I have read several books about life in Stalinist Russia and all I can say is the teaching profession was about as dangerous as can be. One slip of the lip landed many in Siberia or worse.
The worst thing you could be in The Soviet Union was to be more popular than Stalin. Sergei Kirov, found that out the hard way.