can we please not forget that the reason the CCP revolution was so successful was thanks to its peasant origins and grassroots appeal amid a series of revolutions the US could not stop no matter how many munitions they maneuvered over thanks to how popular they were? rebranding revolutionaries as some kind of high-IQ population does nothing save defy historicity, stray from Marx’s message (or was this particular one Lenin’s?) that nothing is “fated” and everything thought to be natural can be surpassed through material efforts—i.e. that any circumstance can be risen above through hard work, that no matter what class you were born into, you may organize and revolt—and reeks of elitism.