And that is Lenin through and through. Communists beg, steal, lie, and kill all for the big idea. Everything and everyone else does not matter. Once in power all opponents are forced into silence or jailed or executed. It is a religion really. There is no room for respect for others who disagree with them. You disagree, you are part of the problem they are fighting against. What "on the street" revolutionists do not understand is those leaders they put their faith in to carry out the big change can then lord over THEM as well. So if the low level radicals then grow disillusioned and turn on the state, it is too late. Those people are thrown into the same gulags with the capitalists and patriots.