These progressives and socialists are merely house niggers of communism, they along with all the intellectuals that enabled their movement will eventually form the mensheviks and look back in horror as the bolsheviks send them to the gulag after the monarchists and conservatives are done with. After all, the logistics of the killing machine is already setup, it would be a waste to just disassemble it while revolutionaries try to out compete with each other in piety and devoutness to the revolution.

The more "intellectual" and the more "liberal" they are, the more rigid their beliefs and unquestioning they become.