If they were utopians dreaming of socialist equality, they wouldn't have granted themselves and their cronies perks beyond any robber baron. They wouldn't have

If they were utopians dreaming of socialist equality, they wouldn't have granted themselves and their cronies perks beyond any robber baron. They wouldn't have used secret police to terrorize the very class they set out to honor. No, when a system obviously ruled by corrupt thugs strays that far from its principles, I assume the rulers had always been corrupt thugs who paid lip service to the system to sway the masses and achieve power.