“There are some ideas so absurd,” George Orwell is alleged to have said, “that only an intellectual could believe them.” Intellectuals, the British writer noted, were key to the ascent of some of the most destructive ideologies known to man. But there’s another truth, often overlooked, that helps explain their ascent: privilege. More often than not, the wealthy have played their own role in perpetuating the evils of communism upon the masses.