Some people clearly don't see things the way I do:

In retrospect, it seems enigmatic that these talented members of the elite, sent to France on government scholarships, could launch the bloodiest and most radical revolution in modern Asian history. Most came from landowner or civil servant families. Pol Pot and Hou Yuon may have been related to the royal family. An older sister of Pol Pot had been a concubine at the court of King Monivong. Three of the Paris group forged a bond that survived years of revolutionary struggle and intraparty strife, Pol Pot and Ieng Sary married Khieu Ponnary and Khieu Thirith (also known as Ieng Thirith), purportedly relatives of Khieu Samphan. These two well-educated women also played a central role in the regime of Democratic Kampuchea.

Hear that knocking sound? That's reality, trying to find its way in, trying to get you to shift your paradigm, to adjust your mental model so it matches the real world. (Paris-educated Maxists launching a bloody revolution? No! Say it isn't so! How could that possibly be???)

The dirty little lie of Communism (and leftism, in general) is that it's a "people's movement." Like most new religions, it tends to be adopted by people from educated (and privileged) backgrounds -- who often ended up fighting and meeting resistence from the very "peasants" they claimed to be liberating.

And where else to be indoctrinated into Marxism but a prestigious university?

Fidel was a lawyer (University of Havana) with relatively prosperous parents; Che Guevera was a doctor (University of Buenos Aires) of aristocratic lineage; Marx (who was first drawn to Hegel at Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin) tried as hard as he could to avoid working a day in his life. Lenin's (Kazan University) parents were relatively wealthy landowners, as were Mao's -- and Mao himself was a professor. ("Peasants don't suffer -- only scholars suffer in China!")

But I guess some people just can't notice the pattern there, among these people I have mentioned -- a list including some of the bloodiest murderers in history.