Because what she really believes in is socialism for you, silly. In her fantasy you will live in a Soviet-style cement apartment building and eat bugs, but she will continue to live her life just as it is now, with all of us peons eternally grateful to her for liberating us.
The irony is that while communist countries absolutely have an elite class that becomes rich and live a quality of life equal to the wealthy in the West, it's not the pre-revolution elite. They get the guillotine or the gulag. A new elite made up of the most clever and wicked of the revolutionaries replaces them.
Because what she really believes in is socialism for you, silly. In her fantasy you will live in a Soviet-style cement apartment building and eat bugs, but she will continue to live her life just as it is now, with all of us peons eternally grateful to her for liberating us.
The irony is that while communist countries absolutely have an elite class that becomes rich and live a quality of life equal to the wealthy in the West, it's not the pre-revolution elite. They get the guillotine or the gulag. A new elite made up of the most clever and wicked of the revolutionaries replaces them.