The difference is that communism purports to be an egalitarian system (what actually happens in practice during a regime change is another matter of course), so

The difference is that communism purports to be an egalitarian system (what actually happens in practice during a regime change is another matter of course), so there is nothing strange about it. But doing footwork for a deliberately anti-egalitarian system by design is funny given the chances most of these people have of ending up in the inner circle.