You're right. It was never Marxism or any modernist ideas. It's always been a vassal hierarchy with promised positions to devoted followers. Nobody actually wants these modernist ideas, they just want to be positioned for the vassal state and not be serfing the internet.

Everything was just a cover for that. With all the intercommunication going on, the ability to accomplish this goal quietly or with propaganda drops. So, they glitz it up and say it will help those in lower positions. Not serfs, not them ever, but the lower positioned class.

How do I know this? Every country claiming to head toward utopia has ended up this way.